Biology:Colchicum laetum
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
| Colchicum laetum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Tracheophytes |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Angiosperms |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Monocots |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Liliales |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Colchicaceae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Colchicum |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | <div style="display:inline" class="script error: no such module "taxobox ranks".">C. laetum |
| Binomial name | |
| Colchicum laetum Steven[1]
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Colchicum × byzantinum var. laetum (Steven) Nyman | |
Colchicum laetum is a species of Colchicum found in south east Russia through to the Caucasus.[1][2]
A plant known in cultivation as C. laetum 'Pink Star' is thought to be a selection of Colchicum × byzantinum. It has flowers which are pale purple-pink with rounded ends; the petals of each bloom are often held parallel to the soil surface.[3][4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Colchicum laetum", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=302876, retrieved 2012-09-11
- ↑ Steven, Christian von. 1829. Nouveau Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 7: 262, t. 18, Colchicum laetum
- ↑ Leeds, Roy (2006), Autumn Bulbs, B.T. Batsford, ISBN 978-0-7134-8962-0
- ↑ Nyman, Carl Frederik. 1882. Conspectus florae europaeae : seu Enumeratio methodica plantarum phanerogamarum Europae indigenarum, indicatio distributionis geographicae singularum etc. 743, Colchicum × byzantinum var. laetum
Wikidata ☰ Q4080846 entry
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