Crocus/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Crocus.

is a genus of over eighty species of small, perennial flowering plants in the iris family (Iridaceae) which can bloom in the spring or in the fall, though the name "autumn crocus" is also applied to plants of the genus Colchicum.