Colchicum autumnale L.

LILIACEAE

- Lily family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Colchicum autumnale L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 341 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Autumn crocus

English name: autumn-crocus

English name: colchicum

Italian name: Colchico d'autunno

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Liliidae
Order: Liliales
Family: Liliaceae
Genus: Colchicum
Species:

Page counter: 1634 ( AVG: 223.35 / 292.911 )

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Colchicum autumnale
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Colchicum autumnale
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Dolegna del Collio, lungo la strada che conduce a Cormons, in zona boschiva., GO, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Colchicum autumnale
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Colchicum autumnale
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Torreglia, strada che conduce all' Eremo di Monte Rua. , PD, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Colchicum autumnale
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Ampezzo, Passo Pura, UD, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Colchicum autumnale
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Colchicum autumnale
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, centro città, Civico Orto Botanico, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Colchicum autumnale
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Ampezzo, Passo del Pura., UD, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Colchicum autumnale
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Colchicum autumnale
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Sauris, località Sauris di Sopra, presso il sentiero per il Monte Piéltinis. , Udine, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Colchicum autumnale
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Colchicum autumnale
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Colchicum autumnale
Picture modified from Gilg, Ernst; Schumann, Karl - Das Pflanzenreich Hausschatz des Wissens (1900) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Colchicum autumnale
Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Colchicum autumnale
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Colchicum autumnale
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Chiusaforte, fondovalle della Val Raccolana. , UD, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Colchicum autumnale
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Colchicum autumnale
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Colchicum autumnale
Credit: Photo by Alessandro Alessandrini

Colchicum autumnale
Picture modified from Graebner, Paul - Taschenbuch zum Pflanzenbestimmen (1918) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Colchicum autumnale
Picture modified from Bley, Franz - Botanisches Bilderbuch (1897/98) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

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- The New Plantfinder - Images and local names of vascular plants - Project Dryades / KeyToNature, coordinated by the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
- Lichens - Interactive identification keys to the lichens
- Acta Plantarum - Forum and Image Gallery (Plants, Animals, Mushrooms)

Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (KY, MA, MD, NC, NH, NY, OR, UT, VT)

Distributional map for Colchicum autumnale L.
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(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Colchicum speciosum Steven [309]
2) Coldenia canescens DC. [150]
3) Coldenia canescens DC. var. pulchella I.M. Johnst. [144]
4) Coldenia gossypina (Woot. & Standl.) I.M. Johnst. [146]
5) Coldenia hispidissima (Torr. & A. Gray) A. Gray var. latior I.M. Johnst. [144]
6) Coldenia palmeri A. Gray [139]
7) Coleogeton filiformis (Pers.) D.H. Les & Haynes ssp. alpinus (Blytt) D.H. Les & Haynes [141]
8) Coleosanthus desertorum (Coville) Coville [151]
9) Coleus pumilus Blanco [181]
10) Collema cyrtaspis Tuck. [144]

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