Taxon: Colchicum autumnale L.

Common names:

• autumn-crocus   (Source: CRC MedHerbs )
  
• colchicum   (Source: CRC MedHerbs )
  
• meadow-saffron   (Source: CRC MedHerbs )
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Eur Gard F)
  
• Medicines: folklore; source of colchicine, colchicine amide, & demecolcine   (fide Import Medicinal Pl; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (to humans and livestock fide Kingsbury; Lampe & McCann; Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Colchicum autumnale from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

Native:

• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Poland
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France; Spain

References:

• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Duke, J. A. 1985. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Colchicum autumnale.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Colchicum autumnale. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Colchicum autumnale L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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