Crocus flavus


Crocus flavus, known as yellow crocus or Dutch yellow crocus, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Crocus of the family Iridaceae. It grows wild on the slopes of Greece, former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania and northwestern Turkey, with fragrant bright orange-yellow flowers which Tennyson likened to a fire. It is a small crocus. Its cultivars are used as ornamental plants.
The Latin specific epithet flavus means "pure yellow".
C. flavus naturalises well in the garden, and its cultivars are used as ornamental plants. The subspecies C. flavus subsp. flavus has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
;Subspecies
  1. Crocus flavus subsp. dissectus T.Baytop & B.Mathew - western Turkey
  2. Crocus flavus subsp. flavus - Greece, Turkey, Balkans; naturalized in Utah
  3. Crocus flavus subsp. sarichinarensis Rukšans - Turkey