Romulea bulbocodium(L.) Sebast. & Mauri

WFO wfo-0000785422 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Romulea bulbocodium, photographed by Manuel Cardeñosa
fig. a Manuel Cardeñosa, CC0 1.0 / 2022-04-18 / obs. 189057143
Romulea bulbocodium, photographed by John Lyden
fig. b John Lyden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186427459
Romulea bulbocodium, photographed by hecklemore
fig. c hecklemore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185842078
Romulea bulbocodium, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. d Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183759718
Romulea bulbocodium, photographed by Mario Bassini
fig. e Mario Bassini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181955956
Romulea bulbocodium, photographed by Felix Puff
fig. f Felix Puff, CC0 1.0 / obs. 185808527
Romulea bulbocodium, photographed by Dimitra Vasileiadou
fig. g Dimitra Vasileiadou, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179497427
Romulea bulbocodium, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. h Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177807774

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Native range 20 botanical countries

Regions where Romulea bulbocodium is native: Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Türkiye, Albania, Bulgaria, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain AlgeriaLibyaMoroccoTunisiaEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaPalestineTürkiyeAlbaniaBulgariaCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpain Sardegna
Native distribution of Romulea bulbocodium, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Türkiye TUR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 527 in flower of 529 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Romulea bulbocodium observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 527 of 529 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 68 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Bulbocodium collinum Kuntze
  • Bulbocodium crocifolium (Vis.) Kuntze
  • Bulbocodium purpurascens (Ten.) Kuntze
  • Crocus bulbocodium L.
  • Ixia bulbocodium (L.) L.
  • Ixia bulbocodium var. minima Cambess.
  • Ixia europaea Pers.
  • Ixia purpurascens Ten.
  • Romulea acutiflora Jord.
  • Romulea bulbocodium prol. syrtica (Jord. & Fourr.) Rouy
  • Romulea bulbocodium subsp. grandiflora (Parl.) Nyman
  • Romulea bulbocodium subsp. pulchella (Jord. & Fourr.) K.Richt.
  • Romulea bulbocodium subsp. pylia (Herb.) K.Richt.
  • Romulea bulbocodium subsp. subpalustris (Herb.) K.Richt.
  • Romulea bulbocodium subsp. syrtica (Jord. & Fourr.) K.Richt.
  • Romulea bulbocodium subsp. uliginosa (Kunze) Maire & Weiller
  • Romulea bulbocodium var. debilis Samp.
  • Romulea bulbocodium var. dioica Batt.
  • Romulea bulbocodium var. grandiflora Parl.
  • Romulea bulbocodium var. heterodoxa Maire
  • Romulea bulbocodium var. multiflora (Req. ex Parl.) Nyman
  • Romulea bulbocodium var. pulchella (Jord. & Fourr.) Baker
  • Romulea bulbocodium var. pygmaea Bég.
  • Romulea bulbocodium var. pylia (Herb.) Baker

and 44 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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