Although Crocus mazziaricus is a well-known and widely distributed species, its taxonomic status, or rather, just to which populations its specific epithet can be applied, is still debatable. Certainly, in such a large region several species might be hiding under the common name “C. mazziaricus”. Plants offered here originally were collected closely to the locus classicus (on mainland Greece just opposite to Lefkada Island at W coast of Greece) where it grew side by side with C. hadriaticus in mixed populations) and respond to original description.