Marguerite asked, >Not too long ago, a message on one of the plant lists to which I belong >identified Sternbergia lutea as Crocus sternbergia lutea. I thought >Sternbergia is an Amaryllid and not an Iridaceae. Was that message >leading me astray, or has Sternbergia really changed its information? Certainly it was a mistake. Probably it was the same sort of "common-name" error into which people are led by mass-market catalogs that identify colchicums as "autumn crocus." Now that you mention it, I think I've seen Sternbergia lutea pictured along with fall crocuses in some such catalog. Jane McGary No Sternbergias in flower yet, and only one crocus