Thanks so much Jane, Jim, John, and Arnold for your help on this. I've revised the Colchicum page reflecting your comments and moved some of the hybrids that were on that page to the Colchicum hybrids page. I renamed Angelo's picture to a species with the note that it could be Colchicum cilicicum and renamed Arnold's C. major to Colchicum byzantinum. I just left the rest with the names listed as they were with notes that they could be something else. John Grimshaw's explanation of why there could be confusion for species that have flowers at one time of the year and then when they are gone leaves at another time of the year is a reasonable one. I can see how it would be difficult to find the same plant at another date. How many genera have species with this characteristics? I know we talked about plants that flower without leaves, but often the leaves appear shortly afterwards not months later or the plant flowers as the leaves die back. Mary Sue