Like Jim McKenney my experience with Sternbergia clusiana comes from bulbs imported and sold as S. lutea in the early 80s. Most died out but one bulb has persisted without multiplying for probably 25 years. It has a distinctive green note to the yellow of the flower - it is not as richly yellow as the lutea clan. This is difficult to see in Jane's photo, with the sun streaming through the flower, but is apparent in Brian Whyers pics on the wiki. The leaves of my solitary plant are somewhat glaucous - certainly not green like lutea, but not as glaucous as my S. fischeriana. They have a slight twist and I believe that this is a character of S. clusiana. It isn't easy tobe sure from Jane's photograph, but I don't see why those leaves shouldn't fit into the range of variation in S. clusiana (cf the vast variation in foliage and flower shapes in the lutea/sicicula complex). In my experience S. fischeriana also multiplies quite quickly, so one gets a nice tuft of foliage from multiple shoots around the bulb (as visible on John Lonsdale's pics on the wiki): Jane's plants do not show this. John Grimshaw Dr John M. Grimshaw Sycamore Cottage Colesbourne Nr Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 9NP