Jim is right. I suffered a slip of the visual memory. Crocus kotschyanus is a fall-flowering species that is in the same area where I was visualizing today's crocuses, and it flowers here in October. Jane McGary At 11:13 AM 1/27/2015, you wrote: >Jane McGary wrote: " Today Crocus sieberi, >Crocus gargaricus, and Crocus kotschyanus are >open in the lawn." Crocus kotschyanus? That's >about five months out of sync with the bloom >time of that species in my garden. Is that usual >in your locality, Jane? Jim McKenneyMontgomery >County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7, where the >only crocuses to be seen now are those in the >slides I'm reviewing today.l