The cormus of this plant is large, ovate, and fleshy. The leaves are dark-green, very smooth, obtuse, about a foot long, an inch and a half broad, keeled, produced in the spring along with the capsules. Flowers several, bright-purple, with a white tube appearing in the autumn without the leaves. Fruit a capsule, seeds whitish and polished.
Colchicum autumnale (Meadow Saffron)
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