Curtis's Botanical Magazine

-PLATE-  Plate No. 860 

-COMMON_NAMES- Large Purple Spring Crocus
-GENUS- Crocus
-SPECIES- Crocus vernus (beta neapolitanus)
-CLASS- Triandria
-ORDER- Monogynia
-AUTHORITY- Gawler
-MODERN_GENUS- Crocus
-MODERN_SPECIES- Crocus vernus neapolitanus
-MODERN_FAMILY- Iridaceae
-PLANT_TYPE- perennial
-COLOR- mauve or white and violet
-SEASON- spring - early summer
-NATIVE_REGION- Italy, Austria, E Europe
-ZONE- 4
-SOURCE- The Botanical Magazine
-VOLUME- 22
-PUB_DATE- 1805
-REISSUED- __
-EDITOR- John Sims
-ARTIST- S. Edwards, Sansum
-NALPCD- [Plate added 12/2001]

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