English name: Common Sternbergia
Spanish name: Azucena amarilla
Scientific name: Sternbergia lutea
Family: Amaryllidaceae

The low growing bright yellow flowers are most conspicuous when they have formed into a clump. This is a bulbous perennial that looks very much like a crocus at first with upright goblet shaped flowers that are 40 to 50mm long. (A crocus only has three stamens whereas sternbergias have six). The leaves are a dark green, strap like, with a pale central stripe, they may only just be emerging at flowering time and will develop as the flowers fade.

Habitat: Dry scrubland, grassy and rocky slopes, normally in hills and low mountains

Distribution: Spain eastwards to Turkey (not France) N. West Africa

Key Words
Flower colour: yellow
Flowering month: August September October
Size: s / m / l: small
Special features: crocus like

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