Crocus fleischeri

Crocus fleischeri is a herbaceous perennial geophyte growing from a corm. The corms are small^[2] and tear-drop shaped with silky reticulate tunics. The corm inside is yellow and produces leaves at the same time flowering occurs.^[3] The white flowers are slender but open widely. The branched stigmas are dark orange-red when the flowers first open and age to cinnamon brown,^[3] they are taller than the anthers. The throats of the flowers are variable in color, ranging from yellow, orange, to brown and even blackish.^[2] Flowering can occur as early as January if the weather conditions are mild and the plants are winter hardy to USDA zone 6.^[3]

It is found growing in evergreen oak scrub and on dry hillside around 1000 meters in altitude; flowering from January till March.^[4]