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The genus Crocus is in the family Iridaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Crocus

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Crocus abantensis T.Baytop & B.Mathew	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus adanensis T.Baytop & B.Mathew	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus aerius Herb.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus alatavicus Regel & Semen.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus aleppicus Baker	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus almehensis C.D.Brickell & B.Mathew	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus ancyrensis (Herb.) Maw	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus angustifolia Weston	Accepted		TRO
Crocus angustifolius Weston	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus antalyensis B.Mathew	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus asumaniae B.Mathew & T.Baytop	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus autranii Albov	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus banaticus J.Gay	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus baytopiorum B.Mathew	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus biflorus Mill.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus boissieri Maw	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus boryi J.Gay	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus boulosii Greuter	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus cambessedesii J.Gay	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus cancellatus Herb.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus candidus E.D.Clarke	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus carpetanus Boiss. & Reut.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus cartwrightianus Herb.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus caspius Fisch. & C.A.Mey. ex Hohen.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus chrysanthus (Herb.) Herb.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus corsicus Vanucchi	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus cvijicii Kosanin	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus cyprius Boiss. & Kotschy	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus dalmaticus Vis.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus danfordiae Maw	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus etruscus Parl.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus flavus Weston	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus fleischeri J.Gay	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus gargaricus Herb.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus gilanicus B.Mathew	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus goulimyi Turrill	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus graveolens Boiss. & Reut.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus hadriaticus Herb.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus hartmannianus Holmboe	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus herbertii (B.Mathew) B.Mathew	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus hermoneus Kotschy ex Maw	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus × hybridus Petrovic	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus hyemalis Boiss. & Blanche	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus imperati Ten.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus karduchorum Kotschy ex Maw	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus kerndorffiorum Pasche	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus korolkowii Maw & Regel	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus kosaninii Pulevic	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus kotschyanus K.Koch	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus laevigatus Bory & Chaub.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus leichtlinii (Dewer) Bowles	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus ligusticus Mariotti	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus longiflorus Raf.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus malyi Vis.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus mathewii Kerndorff & Pasche	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus michelsonii B.Fedtsch.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus minimus DC.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus moabiticus Bornm.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus naqabensis Al-Eisawi & Kiswani	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus nerimaniae Yüzb.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus nevadensis Amo & Campo	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus niveus Bowles	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus nudiflorus Sm.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus ochroleucus Boiss. & Gaill.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus olivieri J.Gay	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus oreocreticus B.L.Burtt	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus pallasii Goldb.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus paschei Kerndorff	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus × paulineae Pasche & Kerndorff	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus pelistericus Pulevic	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus pestalozzae Boiss.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus pulchellus Herb.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus reticulatus Steven ex Adam	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus robertianus C.D.Brickell	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus rujanensis Randjel. & D.A.Hill	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus sativus L.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus scardicus Kosanin	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus scharojanii Rupr.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus serotinus Salisb.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus sieberi J.Gay	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus sieheanus Barr ex B.L.Burtt	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus speciosus M.Bieb.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus suaveolens Bertol.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus suwarowianus K.Koch	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus thomasii Ten.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus tommasinianus Herb.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus tournefortii J.Gay	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus vallicola Herb.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus veluchensis Herb.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus veneris Tapp. ex Poech	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus vernus (L.) Hill	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus versicolor Ker Gawl.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus vitellinus Wahlenb.	Accepted		iPlants
Crocus wattiorum (B.Mathew) B.Mathew	Accepted		iPlants

Statistics

The Plant List includes 320 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Crocus. Of these 94 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 302 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Crocus. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 320 species names for the genus Crocus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	94	29.4%
◕	Synonym	213	66.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	13	4.1%

All names

The status of the 622 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Crocus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	135	21.7%
◕	Synonym	474	76.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	13	2.1%

Of these names,

• 13 are recorded as invalid
• 31 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 320 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Crocus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	93	212	0	0	305	95.3%
	Medium confidence	1	1	0	0	2	0.6%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	13	13	4.1%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Crocus, are as follows: