Editing Crocus (section)

=== Books ===

* {{cite book |last1=Betancourt |first1=Philip P. |title=Introduction to Aegean Art |date= 2007 |publisher=[[INSTAP]] Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory) |location=Philadelphia|isbn=978-1-62303-086-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o4cIEAAAQBAJ }}
* {{cite book |last1=Goldgar |first1=Anne |title=Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age |date=15 September 2008 |publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]] |isbn=978-0-226-30130-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gViwLbCJ7X0C }}
* {{cite book|editor-last1=Kubitzki|editor-first1=Klaus|editor-last2=Huber|editor-first2=Herbert|editor-link1=Klaus Kubitzki|editor-link2=Herbert Huber (botanist)|series=The families and genera of vascular plants |volume=3 |title=Flowering plants. Monocotyledons: Lilianae (except Orchidaceae)  |year=1998|publisher=[[Springer-Verlag]]|location=Berlin |isbn=3-540-64060-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FyPVYzL76sMC |last1=Goldblatt|first1=P|authorlink1=Peter Goldblatt|last2=Manning|first2=J C|authorlink2=John Charles Manning|last3=Rudall|first3=P|authorlink3=Paula Rudall|chapter=Iridaceae: 61 Crocus L.|pages=330–331|ref={{harvid|Goldblatt et al|1998}}}}
* {{Cite book |last1=Grey-Wilson |first1=C. |last2=Mathew |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Mathew|others=Illustrated by Marjorie Blamey  |year=1981 |title=Bulbs: the bulbous plants of Europe and their allies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GxRIAAAAYAAJ|location=London |publisher=[[William Collins, Sons|Collins]] |isbn=978-0-00-219211-8 }}
* {{cite book |editor1-last=Heilman |editor1-first=Christine |title=Simple Steps to Success: Pests and Diseases |date=2010 |publisher=Royal Horticultural Society; Dorling Kindersley |location=NY |isbn=978-0-7566-6996-6 |edition=US |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c-loMXA1N_YC }}
* {{cite book |last1=Innes |first1=Clive |title=The World of Iridaceae: A Comprehensive Record |date=1985 |publisher=Holly Gate International |location=[[Ashington, West Sussex|Ashington]], Sussex|isbn=978-0-948236-01-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OCAmAQAAMAAJ }}
* {{cite book |last1=Jelitto |first1=Leo |last2=Schacht |first2=Wilhelm |last3=Fessler |first3=Alfred |title=Hardy Herbaceous Perennials |trans-title=Die Freiland-Schmuckstauden|others=trans. Michael E Epp|date=1990 |orig-year=1950 Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart|publisher=[[Timber Press]] |location=[[Portland, Oregon]]|isbn=978-0-88192-159-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=utVnAQAACAAJ|edition=3rd.|volume=1 A–K |chapter=Crocus L. Iridaceae|pages=168–174|ref={{harvid|Jelitto et al|1990}}}}{{link note|note= Available [https://archive.org/details/hardyherbaceousp0000jeli here] at [[Internet Archive]]}}
* {{cite book|editor-first1=Rina |editor-last1=Kamenetsky |editor-first2=Hiroshi |editor-last2=Okubo |title=Ornamental Geophytes: From Basic Science to Sustainable Production|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5B-ucdbgA3wC|year=2012 |publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-4398-4924-8}}
* {{Cite book|editor-last1=Koocheki|editor-first1=Alireza|editor-last2=Khajeh-Hosseini |editor-first2=Mohammad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q8i2DwAAQBAJ|title=Saffron: Science, Technology and Health|date=2020|publisher=[[Woodhead Publishing]]|series=Food Science, Technology and Nutrition|isbn=978-0-12-818740-1}}
* {{cite book |last1=Lehner |first1=Ernst |last2=Lehner |first2=Johanna |title=Folklore and Symbolism of Flowers, Plants and Trees |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E1MsNIoiFOcC&pg=PA56|date=2003 |origyear=1960 Tudor Publishing|publisher=[[Courier Corporation]] |isbn=978-0-486-42978-6|chapter=The Crocus|page=56  }}
* {{cite book |last1=Mathew |first1=Brian |authorlink=Brian Mathew|title=The Crocus: A Revision of the Genus Crocus (Iridaceae) |date=1983 |origyear=1982|publisher=[[Timber Press]] |location=Portland, Oregon|isbn=978-0-917304-23-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gQwmAQAAMAAJ }}
* {{Cite book|editor-last=Negbi|editor-first=Moshe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uLSGgd9sEOUC|title=Saffron: Crocus sativus L.|date=1999|publisher=[[CRC Press]]|isbn=978-0-203-30366-5}}
* {{Cite book|editor-last1=Ozturk|editor-first1=Munir|editor-last2=Hakeem|editor-first2=Khalid Rehman|editor-last3=Ashraf|editor-first3=Muhammad|editor-last4=Ahmad|editor-first4=Muhammad Sajid Aqeel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eC1bDwAAQBAJ|title=Global Perspectives on Underutilized Crops|date=2018|publisher=[[Springer Nature]]|isbn=978-3-319-77776-4|last1=Kafi|first1=Muhammad|last2=Kamili|first2=Azra N|last3=Husaini|first3=Amjad N|display-authors=et al|chapter=An expensive spice saffron (Crocus sativus L.): A Case Study from Kashmir, Iran and Turkey|pages=109–150|ref={{harvid|Kafi et al|2018}}}}
* {{cite book |last1=Palyvou |first1=Clairy |title=Akrotiri, Thera: An Architecture of Affluence 3,500 Years Old |date= 2005 |publisher=[[INSTAP]] Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory) |isbn=978-1-62303-068-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pAQVEAAAQBAJ }}
* {{cite book|last1=Pavord|first1=Anna|authorlink=Anna Pavord|title=The naming of names the search for order in the world of plants.|date=2005|publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing USA]] |location=New York|isbn=978-1-59691-965-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qksX1BeWkqcC}}{{link note|note= [https://books.google.com/books?id=wvP92qGbI08C additional excerpts] }}
* {{cite book |last1=Ranđelović |first1=Novica |last2=Hill |first2=David A. |title=The Genus Crocus L. in Serbia |date=1990 |publisher=[[Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts]] |location=Belgrade|isbn=978-86-7025-117-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w4wGSAAACAAJ }}
* {{cite book |last1=Rudall |first1=Paula |authorlink=Paula Rudall|title=Anatomy of the Monocotyledons: VIII Iridaceae |date=1995 |publisher=[[Clarendon Press]] |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0198545040 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r2-4zQEACAAJ }}
* {{Cite book|editor-last1=Tsimidou|editor-first1=Maria Z.|editor-last2=Polissiou|editor-first2=Moschos|editor-last3=Fernández|editor-first3=José Antonio|title=Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Saffron: Forthcoming Challenges in Cultivation, Research and Economics, Krokos, Greece, May 20 2009|url=https://www.ishs.org/ishs-book/850|date=2010|publisher=[[International Society for Horticultural Science|ISHS]] 850|isbn=978-90-6605-732-6|last1= Sevinç Kravkaz|first1=I.|last2= Vurdu|first2=H.|chapter=Botany of Crocus ancyrensis through Domestication|pages=61–65}}
* {{Cite book|last1=Runkel|first1=Sylvan T.|last2=Roosa|first2=Dean M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EyLjHnUap0UC|title=Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest|date= 2009|publisher=[[University of Iowa Press]]|isbn=978-1-58729-844-8|edition=2nd.|orig-year=1989}}
* {{Cite book|last=Ruksans|first=Janis|title=Crocuses: A Complete Guide to the Genus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3pqFWjcZphMC&pg=PA17|date=2011|publisher=[[Timber Press]]|isbn=978-1-60469-106-1}}{{link note|note=[https://www.amazon.ca/Crocuses-Complete-Guide-Janis-Ruksans/dp/1604691069 ''excerpts available here'']}}

==== Gardening, horticulture and floriculture ====

* {{Cite book|last=Armitage|first=Allan M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kA6VgfxsstIC|title=Herbaceous Perennial Plants: A Treatise on their Identification, Culture, and Garden Attributes|date=2008|publisher=[[Cool Springs Press]]|isbn=978-1-61058-380-0|edition=3rd|chapter=Crocus|pages=301–308}}
* {{cite book |last1=Bowles |first1=E. A. |authorlink=Edward Augustus Bowles|title=A Handbook of Crocus and Colchicum for Gardeners |date=1985 |origyear=1924|publisher=Waterstone |isbn=978-0-947752-26-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V9tFAAAAYAAJ }}{{link note|note=1st ed. Available [https://archive.org/details/handbookofcrocus00bowl here] at [[Internet Archive]]}}
* {{Cite book|editor-last=Hanson|editor-first=Beth|title=Spring-blooming Bulbs: An A to Z Guide to Classic and Unusual Bulbs for Your Spring Garden|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AJ4lbhOI13sC&pg=PA70|date=2002|publisher=[[Brooklyn Botanic Garden]]|isbn=978-1-889538-54-9|series=21st-Century Gardening, No. 173|last1=Burrell|first1=C Colston|last2=Hardiman|first2=Lucy|chapter=Encyclopedia of Spring-Blooming Bulbs: Crocus pp.&nbsp;68–70|pages=52–100}}
* {{cite book |last1=Bush-Brown |first1=Louise |last2=Bush-Brown |first2=James |last3=Irwin |first3=Howard S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Nk6AQAAIAAJ|
title=America's Garden Book |date= 1996 |origyear=1939|publisher=[[Wiley (publisher)|Wiley]] |location=New York|isbn=978-0-02-860995-9|chapter=Crocus Spp. and Cvs.|page=388 |ref={{harvid|Bush-Brown et al|1996}} }}{{link note|note= Available [https://archive.org/details/americasgardenbo00bush_0 here] at [[Internet Archive]]}}
* {{Cite book|editor-last=Larson|editor-first=Roy A.|title=Introduction to Floriculture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RYDNCgAAQBAJ|date=1992|origyear=1980|edition=2nd|publisher=[[Academic Press]]|location=London|isbn=978-1-4832-6998-6|last=De Hertogh|first=August|chapter=Bulbous and tuberous plants|pages=197–223}}
* {{Cite book|last1=Hill |first1=Lewis |last2=Hill |first2=Nancy|title=The Flower Gardener's Bible: A Complete Guide to Colorful Blooms All Season Long: 400 Favorite Flowers, Time-Tested Techniques, Creative Garden Designs, and a Lifetime of Gardening Wisdom|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f_5KHXvqyOYC&pg=PA249|date=2012|origyear=2003|edition=10th Anniversary|publisher=[[Storey Publishing]]|location=North Adams, MA|isbn=978-1-60342-807-1|chapter=Crocus|page=249}}
* {{cite book |last1=Mathew |first1=Brian |authorlink=Brian Mathew|title=Flowering Bulbs for the Garden |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Sk8PQAACAAJ|date=1987 |publisher=[[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]]| isbn=978-0-600-35175-7  }}
* {{cite book |last1=Phillips |first1=Roger |last2=Rix |first2=Martyn |authorlink2=Martyn Rix|title=The Random House Book of Bulbs |date=1989 |publisher=[[Random House]] |isbn=978-0-679-72756-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o_7wAAAAMAAJ }}
* {{Cite book|editor-last=Toogood|editor-first=Alan|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WhfEDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA265|title=Propagating Plants: How to Create New Plants for Free|chapter=Crocus|page=265|date=2019|origyear=1999|publisher=[[DK (publisher)|Dorling Kindersley]] ([[Penguin Books|Penguin]])|isbn=978-1-4654-9898-4|edition=Revised}}
* {{Cite book|last1=Viette|first1=Andre|last2=Viette|first2=Mark|last3=Heriteau|first3=Jacqueline|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VPf6CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA47|title=Mid-Atlantic Getting Started Garden Guide: Grow the Best Flowers, Shrubs, Trees, Vines & Groundcovers|date=2015|edition=Revised|origyear=2003|publisher=[[Cool Springs Press]]|isbn=978-1-59186-435-6|chapter=Crocus|page=47|ref={{harvid|Viette et al|2015}}}}
* {{cite book|last1=Mathew|first1=Brian|authorlink=Brian Mathew|editor1-last=Cullen|editor1-first=James|editor2-last=Knees|editor2-first=Sabina G.|editor3-last=Cubey|editor3-first=H. Suzanne Cubey|title=The European Garden Flora, Flowering Plants: A Manual for the Identification of Plants Cultivated in Europe, Both Out-of-Doors and Under Glass|date=2011|origyear=1984|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|location=Cambridge|isbn=978-0-521-76147-5|pages=270–277|edition=2nd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CkxWrDqtWLQC|volume= 1. Alismataceae to Orchidaceae|chapter=Crocus Linnaeus}}
* {{cite book |last1=Willes |first1=Margaret |title=The Making of the English Gardener: Plants, Books and Inspiration, 1560-1660 |date= 2011 |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |isbn=978-0-300-16382-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wAxLU3bo3kwC }}

==== Dictionaries and encyclopedias ====

* {{cite encyclopedia |last1=Harper |first1=Douglas |title=Online Etymology Dictionary |url=https://www.etymonline.com/ |chapter=Crocus|chapter-url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/crocus|access-date=11 January 2022 |date=2022}}, (link note|note=''see also'' [[Online Etymology Dictionary]]
* {{cite encyclopedia|last1=Liddell |first1=Henry George |last2=Scott |first2=Robert |others=Revised by [[Henry Stuart Jones]]|authorlink1=Henry Liddell|authorlink2=Robert Scott (philologist)|title=A Greek-English Lexicon 2 vols.|url=https://archive.org/details/b31364949_0001 |date=1996|edition=9th|publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-864226-8|access-date=10 January 2022}}, {{link note|note= ''see also'' [[A Greek–English Lexicon]]}}
** {{cite encyclopedia|last1=Liddell |last2=Scott |date=1996a|title=κρόκος , ὁ|volume=1|page=998|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dkro%2Fkos}}
** {{cite encyclopedia|last1=Liddell |last2=Scott |date=1996b|title=ἀρωμα^τ|volume=1|page=254|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Da)rwmati%2Fzw}}
* {{cite encyclopedia|last=Mabberley|first=D. J.|title=The Plant-Book: A Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZVdoUPtqKCIC|date=1997|origyear=1987|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|edition=2nd|isbn=978-0-521-41421-0|chapter=Crocus|page=194}}
* {{cite encyclopedia|last1=Pankhurst|first1=Roger|last2=Hyam|first2=Richard|title=Plants and their names: a concise dictionary|date=1995|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-866189-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ywIPQgAACAAJ}}{{link note|note= Available [https://archive.org/details/plantstheirnames0000hyam here] at [[Internet Archive]]}} 
* {{cite encyclopedia|last1=Skelly |first1=Carole J. |title=Dictionary of Herbs, Spices, Seasonings, and Natural Flavorings |date=1994 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-1-136-51420-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oOjGBQAAQBAJ|chapter=Pulsatilla|chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=oOjGBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT444}}
* {{Cite encyclopedia|editor1-last=Tenenbaum|editor1-first=Frances|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=557KJL0TC48C&pg=PA118|title=Taylor's Encyclopedia of Garden Plants|date=2003|publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]]|isbn=978-0-618-22644-3|chapter=Crocus|pages=118–119}}
* {{cite encyclopedia |last1=Wyman |first1=Donald |title=Wyman's Gardening Encyclopedia |date=1986 |origyear=1971|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |isbn=978-0-02-632070-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XSExQDJtQ7AC |edition=2nd.|chapter=Crocus|pages=272–274}}
* {{cite encyclopedia|title=Crocus|website=[[Oxford English Dictionary]]|date=20 September 2007 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0-19-920687-2|url=https://www.lexico.com/definition/crocus|accessdate=10 January 2022|ref={{harvid|OED|2022}}|archive-date=10 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220110231351/https://www.lexico.com/definition/crocus|url-status=dead}}
* {{cite book|editor-last=Smith|editor-first=William|editor-link=William Smith (lexicographer)|last=Schmitz|first=Leonhard|authorlink=Leonhard Schmitz|title=Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 2 vols.|volume=I: Abaeus-Dysponteus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GoUOAAAAQAAJ|chapter=Crocus|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GoUOAAAAQAAJ&pg=P896|page=896|year=1850|publisher=Taylor and Walton|location=London}}
* {{cite book|editor-last=Smith|editor-first=William|editor-link=William Smith (lexicographer)|title=A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LscPAAAAYAAJ|year=1859|edition=2nd.|publisher=[[Little, Brown and Company]]|location=Boston}}

==== Historical sources (chronological) ====

;Antiquity
* {{cite book|last1=Theophrastus|author-link=Theophrastus|editor1-last=Hort|editor1-first=Arthur|title=Περὶ φυτῶν ἱστορία: (Περὶ ὀσμῶν; ''De Odoribus'')|trans-title=Enquiry into Plants: Concerning odours|volume=II|pages=324–489|date=1916|orig-date=4th century BC|publisher=[[William Heinemann]] and [[G. P. Putnam's Sons|G.P. Putnam's Sons]] |series=[[Loeb Classical Library]] |location=London and New York |isbn=978-0-674-99077-7|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/theophrastusiien00theo/page/350/mode/2up|chapter=6. Of the various parts of plants used for perfumes, and of the composition of various notable perfumes, section 27 }}{{link note|note=also available [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Theophrastus/De_odoribus*.html here] on Penelope}}
;14th century 
* {{cite web |last1=BL |authorlink=British Library|title=Detailed record for Egerton 747 (ca. 1300–1330)|url=http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8319&CollID=28&NStart=747|website=Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts |access-date=20 January 2022 |date=2022}}
;16th century
* {{cite book |last1=Turner |first1=William |authorlink=William Turner (naturalist)|title=The Names of Herbes |date=1548|edition=1881 |publisher=[[English Dialect Society|English dialect society]] |location=London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZYIrUD8lP90C |chapter=Crocus|page=31}}
* {{cite book|last1=l'Obel|first1=Matthias de|authorlink=Matthias de l'Obel|title=Plantarum, seu, Stirpium historia. Cui annexum est aduersariorum volumen   |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/7094#/summary|date=1576|publisher=[[Christophori Plantini]]|location=Antwerp|language=latin|chapter=Crocus|page=53|chapter-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37879#page/737/mode/1up}}
* {{Cite book |last1=Gerard |first1=John |author-link=John Gerard |title=The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes |date=1597 |edition=1st |publisher=John Norton |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/mobot31753000817749 |chapter=80. Of Saffron|pages =123–131|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/mobot31753000817749/page/122/mode/2up}} ([[Internet Archive]] version: also here at [[Botanicus]] and here at [[Biodiversity Heritage Library]])
;17th century
* {{cite book |last1=Besler |first1=Basilius |authorlink=Basilius Besler|title=Hortus Eystettensis, sive, Diligens et accurata omnium plantarum, florum, stirpium: ex variis orbis terrae partibus, singulari studio collectarum, quae in celeberrimis viridariis arcem episcopalem ibidem cingentibus, olim conspiciebantur delineatio et ad vivum repraesentatio et advivum repraesentatio opera|date=1640 |origyear=1613|location=Nürnberg|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/45339#/summary|language=latin}}
* {{cite book|last=Parkinson|first=John|authorlink=John Parkinson (botanist)|title=Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris, or, A Choise Garden of All Sorts of Rarest Flowers with their Nature, Place of Birth, Time of Flowering, Names, and Vertues to Each Plant, Useful in Physic or Admired for Beauty: To which is Annext a Kitchin-Garden Furnished with All Manner of Herbs, Roots, and Fruits, for Meat or Sauce Used with Us, with the Art of Planting an Orchard... All Unmentioned in Former Herbals|chapter-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/69836|location=London|publisher=Printed by R.N. and are to be sold by Richard Thrale at his shop at the signe of the Cross-Keys at S. Pauls-gate, going into Cheap-side|year=1656|chapter=Crocus saffron|pages=160–170}}
;18th century
* {{cite book |last=Linnaeus |first=Carl |authorlink=Linnaeus|title=Species Plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/669#/summary|year=1753|volume=1|chapter=Crocus|chapter-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/13829#page/48/mode/1up|page=36|publisher=Impensis Laurentii Salvii|location=Stockholm}}, ''see also'' [[Species Plantarum]]
* {{cite book |last1=Maratti |first1=Giovanni Francesco |authorlink=:es:Giovanni Francesco Maratti|title=Plantarum Romuleae, et Saturniae in agro Romano existentium: specificas notas describit inventor |date=1772 |publisher=Typis Archangeli Casaletti |location=Rome |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ik0aAAAAYAAJ |language=la}}
* {{cite book |last=Jussieu |first=Antoine Laurent de |authorlink=Antoine Laurent de Jussieu|title=Genera plantarum: secundum ordines naturales disposita, juxta methodum in Horto regio parisiensi exaratam, anno M.DCC.LXXIV |location=Paris |year=1789 |oclc=5161409 |url= https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/7125|language=la|chapter=Crocus|page=59|chapter-url= https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/7125#page/154/mode/1up}}
;19th century
* {{cite book|last=Lindley|first=John|author-link=John Lindley|title=The Vegetable Kingdom: or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system|publisher=Bradbury & Evans|location=London|date=1853|orig-year=1846|edition=3rd.|url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/95459#/summary}}
* {{cite book|last1=Bentham|first1=G.|last2=Hooker|first2=J.D.|authorlink1=George Bentham|authorlink2=Joseph Dalton Hooker|title=Genera plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis kewensibus servata definita|volume=III Part II|year=1883|publisher=L Reeve & Co.|location=London|page=693|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/14690#page/254/mode/1up|chapter=Crocus}}
* {{cite book |last1=Maw |first1=George |authorlink=Maw & Co|title=A monograph of the genus Crocus. With an appendix on the etymology of the words crocus and saffron by C.C. Lacaita |date=1886 |publisher=Dulau and Co.|location=London|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/15481}}
** {{cite journal |last1=Nature |title=The Crocus |journal=Nature |date=February 1887 |volume=35 |issue=902 |pages=348–349 |type=Review|doi=10.1038/035348a0|bibcode=1887Natur..35..348. |s2cid=4091523 |doi-access=free }}
* {{cite book |last1=Masclef |first1=Amédée |authorlink=Amédée Masclef|title=Atlas des plantes de France 3 vols |date=1890–1893|volume=3|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/146304|pages=328}}