Crocus gargaricus

Crocus gargaricus is a herbaceous perennial geophyte growing from a corm. It is a small crocus species with bright yellow (occasionally lemon yellow) to orange flowers that commonly has orange, three branched, styles.^[4] The corms are small with finely netted, fibrous tunics. Corms produce three or four leaves, about 2mm wide, that emerge from the soil about the same time flowering occurs.^[5] Flowering occurs from February to March. Plants reproduce quickly, forming many short stolons that generate new corms.^[5]

Crocus gargaricus grows in damp pasture and open pine woodlands at an elevation range of 1200 to 2300 meters.^[4] Often found near snow melt in mountain meadows with peaty soils, growing with Pinus nigra ssp. pallasiana and Abies nordmanniana ssp. bornmuelleria.^[5]