Crocus vernus

Pladias classes the plant as a geophyte with insect pollination and selfing as its pollination syndrome.

The flowers stand upright and range from white to purple; the grass like leaves carry a white central stripe.

Pladias, the Czech flora database, gives the flowering period of Crocus vernus as March to April.

In Lublin, Poland, Crocus vernus blooms from the third ten day period of March until the third ten day period of April, and each flower lives three to four days.

The Berlin natural history museum describes spring crocus as a plant of mountain meadows and pastures that is also often planted in gardens and parks.

The nectar collects in a narrow space between the style and the long perianth tube that surrounds it.

The spherical pollen grains have no apertures and are coated with many droplets of pollenkitt.

A University of Würzburg bee project notes that crocuses are not native in the region except Crocus vernus, which now also occurs as a wild form, and that wild forms feed insects.

The Bavarian institute LWG lists spring crocus species among bed and container plants for the early spring forage phase from mid February to the end of March.

The UK Royal Horticultural Society lists spring flowering crocus species in the spring (March to May) section of its Plants for Pollinators garden plant list.

The Vienna university botanical garden calls spring crocus native to Austria and one parent of the hybrid garden crocus cultivars.

The Berlin museum portrait gives the endangerment level of spring crocus in Germany as not endangered.