Crocus hadriaticus ( pictures from habitat)
Jim McKenney (Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:56:20 PDT)

Roger wrote: "As do the Pennsylvania Dutch farmers. I've read that they grow a clump of C.
nudiflorus by the back entrance to the house .."

I can't vouch for Roger's claim about the Pennsylvania Dutch growing Crocus nudiflorus, but I do know that they are now growing C. sativus commercially and evidently successfully.
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