IBEROATLANTICA

Overview

It can be readily distinguished from Crocus nudiflorus, the other autumn-flowering regional Crocus (with which it may produce occasional sterile hybrids, described as C. asturicus), by the hairy throat, the ivory or yellowish stamen filaments and the generally shorter flower tube, as well as for leaves being already more or less developed during the anthesis. Recent work by Kerndorff & Harpke in Stapfia 113: 5-32 (2022) concludes that Iberoatlantic plants don't correspond to the true C. serotinus but to a closely related but distinct, apparently diploid species: Crocus cobbii.

Status

Native

Nomenclature

Crocus serotinus Salisb. Euro+Med Plantbase

Species data in Europe

See the complete information sheet in FloraVeg.EU

Habitats

This species has been recorded in the following habitats (only habitats with species frequency > 5% are shown).:

Iberian acidophilous birch forests 18%, Cytisus multiflorus fields 2%, Atlantic poor soil thickets 1%, Quercus-Fraxinus-Carpinus betulus forest on eutrophic and mesotrophic soils 1%, Southern wet heaths 1%

Crocus serotinus

Regional distribution

Localities (10 x 10 km) where the species has been recorded in the context of the study area. The complete distribution of the species in the Iberian Peninsula can be found in AFLIBER.