Crocus

Above: Crocus on March 30, 2020

Crocus - (Not a native wildflower)

Crocus vernus (spring crocus)

Above: Crocus on March 30, 2020.

Crocus
by Scottish author, Elizabeth Gordon

SAID CROCUS: "My! this wind is cold

Most wish I had not been so bold;

Here the fields are still all brown;

Glad I wore eider-down."

For more information on Crocus Vernus, visit Wikipedia.

Crocus next to Thoreau Elementary wall on March 5, 2021.

Crocus next to Thoreau Elementary wall on March 15, 2021.

Crocus by Agawa Path in Madison, Wisconsin on April 1, 2021.

Crocus off of Virginia Terrace on April 4, 2021.

Crocus by Agawa Path in Madison, Wisconsin on March 7, 2023.

Crocus by Agawa Path in Madison, Wisconsin on March 8, 2023.

Crocus by Agawa Path in Madison, Wisconsin on March 21, 2023.

Crocus in raised sidewalk garden on Monroe Street in Madison, Wisconsin on March 21, 2023.

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Crocus

Above: Crocus in the UW Arboretum on March 26, 2019.

Above: Crocus in Madison, Wisconsin. (4/01/19)

Crocus blooming by sidewalk on April 2, 2020.

Above: Crocus in Madison, Wisconsin. (4/02/20)

Crocus blooming by Agawa Path on April 2, 2020.

Above: Crocus in Madison, Wisconsin. (4/02/21)

Above: 1874 Crocus illustration by Mary Vaux Walcott. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist.

1910 Crocus by Elizabeth Gordon with illustration by M. T. (Penny) Ross.

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