This crocus population has grown in a vacant lot for between 5 and 10 years. Now it has spread as much as four blocks from its origin.
Solitary, complete (therefore perfect), actinomorphic (radially symmetric) flowers, with 5 sepals, 5 white petals (divided into 2 lobes), 4 stamen, 1 pistil with 3 styles, hypogynous (superior ovary).
*too small to see placentation or locules.
Leaves are simple, opposite, estipulate, petiolate and ovate with broadly acute apices and rounded bases.
Petals slender and brown
Too 3 calyx lobes larger than bottom 2
Perennial shrub, deciduous.
Compound trifoliate leaves, alternate leaf arrangement.
Papilionaceous yellow flowers.
Fruit is a capsule.
Fort Hoskins State Park.
This crocus population has grown in a vacant lot for between 5 and 10 years. Now it has spread as much as four blocks from its origin.
Leaves simple (usually 2), basal, narrow; may be mottled. 3 petals and 3 petal-like sepals.