Colchicum are perennial plants that grow from corms, featuring typically coarse, broad, strap-like leaves. These leaves may emerge alongside or following the goblet-shaped blooms.

Colchicum 'Rubens'

Colchicum 'Spartacus'

Colchicum 'Violet Queen' is a perennial plant that grows to about 15 cm in height. It features semi-erect leaves that are broadly lance-shaped, measuring between 18 to 25 cm in length, visible from winter through spring. In autumn, this variety produces one to five funnel-shaped flowers, each 4 to 6 cm long, characterized by their pinkish violet tepals adorned with white centers and yellow anthers. Additionally, colchicums serve as a valuable late-season pollen source for honeybees.

Colchicum 'Violet Queen'

Colchicum 'Waterlily' is a perennial plant that grows up to 12 cm tall when in bloom. It produces fully double flowers in a lilac-pink hue, measuring approximately 8 cm long. The strap-like leaves emerge after the flowering period.

Colchicum 'Waterlily' (d)

Colchicum 'William Dykes'

Colchicum 'World Champion's Cup'

Colchicum 'Zephyr'

Colchicum Blom's hybrid

Colchicum Drake's form

Colchicum alpinum

Colchicum antilibanoticum

Colchicum arenarium

Colchicum asteranthum

Colchicum atticum

Colchicum autumnale is a perennial plant that grows from corms, reaching a height of up to 15 cm. It features upright, strap-like leaves that can extend to 30 cm long. In the autumn months, this species produces as many as six flowers resembling crocuses, each measuring around 6 cm in length and displaying a lavender-pink hue.

Colchicum autumnale

Colchicum autumnale 'Alboplenum' is a perennial plant that forms corms. In spring, it produces elongated, strap-shaped leaves that will yellow and die back by summer. As autumn arrives, this variety showcases double white flowers composed of numerous slender petals, with a single corm capable of yielding as many as eight blooms.

Colchicum autumnale 'Alboplenum'

Colchicum autumnale 'Album' is a perennial that grows from corms, featuring long, strap-shaped leaves that appear in spring and wither away by summer. In early autumn, it produces goblet-shaped white flowers on white stems.

Colchicum autumnale 'Album'

Colchicum autumnale 'Annecy'

Colchicum autumnale 'Atropurpureum'

Colchicum autumnale 'Drama Bunch'

Colchicum autumnale 'Karin Persson'

Colchicum autumnale 'Lausanne'

Colchicum autumnale 'Pleniflorum' is a sturdy perennial that grows up to 15 cm tall. It features elongated, strap-like leaves that can reach lengths of 35 cm, which emerge during the winter and persist through spring. In autumn, this variety produces 1 to 6 compact, double blooms measuring 4 to 6 cm in length. The flowers display narrow tepals, typically pinkish-lilac in hue, extending up to 7 cm, complemented by golden anthers. This species serves as a valuable late-season pollen source for honeybees.

Colchicum autumnale 'Pleniflorum' (d)

Colchicum autumnale pink

Colchicum autumnale roseum

Colchicum autumnale subsp. pannonicum

This compact perennial reaches a height of 15 cm and produces up to five flowers, each measuring 5 cm in diameter. The blooms are a deep mauve-pink, with the tepals displaying a subtle netted pattern on their exterior.

Colchicum autumnale subsp. pannonicum 'Nancy Lindsay'

Colchicum balansae

Colchicum baytopiorum

Colchicum baytopiorum from Turkey

Colchicum bivonae is a perennial plant that grows from corms, reaching a height of up to 15 cm. Its leaves, which are narrow and ovate, emerge in a semi-erect position during the winter and spring months. In the autumn, it produces bowl-shaped flowers that are pinkish-purple with lighter centers and may emit a mild fragrance. The tepals can have either pointed or rounded tips and feature a prominent checkered pattern.

Colchicum bivonae

Colchicum bivonae 'Apollo'

Colchicum bivonae 'Papa Rema'

Colchicum bivonae 'Vesta'

Colchicum bivonae from Mount Giona, Greece

Colchicum boissieri

Colchicum boissieri from Turkey

Colchicum bulbocodium produces clusters of pink-lilac flowers featuring slender petals, blooming in the spring. The green, strap-shaped leaves can reach lengths of up to 20 cm; they appear later in the season and die back during summer.

Colchicum bulbocodium

Colchicum bulbocodium subsp. versicolor

Colchicum bulbocodium white-flowered

Colchicum burttii

Colchicum capense

Colchicum capense subsp. ciliolatum

Colchicum chalcedonicum

Colchicum chalcedonicum subsp. punctatum

Colchicum chlorobasis

Colchicum cilicicum is a perennial plant that grows from corms, reaching a height of about 10 cm. It features semi-erect leaves that are narrowly elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, measuring between 30 and 40 cm in length. This species produces 3 to 25 funnel-shaped flowers in autumn, each ranging from 4 to 7.5 cm long, displaying purplish-pink tepals that may become more intense near the rounded tips. In addition to its ornamental value, this plant serves as a late-season pollen source for honeybees.

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