Romulea rosea(L.) Eckl.

Rosy sandcrocus

WFO wfo-0000785979 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Romulea rosea, photographed by Leon Perrie
fig. a Leon Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-02 / obs. 193543154
Romulea rosea, photographed by TonyT
fig. b TonyT, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188871269
Romulea rosea, photographed by Alex
fig. c Alex, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183863407
Romulea rosea, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda
fig. d Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184441288
Romulea rosea, photographed by Victor Heng
fig. e Victor Heng, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185656046
Romulea rosea, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. f Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185626309
Romulea rosea, photographed by Justin
fig. g Justin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182245220
Romulea rosea, photographed by Andrew Lie
fig. h Andrew Lie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183446729

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 1,245 observations

Peak flowering in Sep, from 1,245 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 30 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 chloroleucum (Jacq.) Kuntze
  • Bulbocodium longifolium (Salisb.) Kuntze
  • Bulbocodium roseum (L.) Kuntze
  • Calydorea chilensis Muñoz-Schick
  • Crocus capensis Burm.f.
  • Ixia bulbocodium Lam.
  • Ixia chloroleuca Jacq.
  • Ixia fugax Hornem.
  • Ixia ochroleuca Vahl
  • Ixia rosea L.
  • Romulea bulbocodium var. cruciata (Ker Gawl.) Ewart
  • Romulea celsii (Planch.) Klatt
  • Romulea chloroleuca (Jacq.) Eckl.
  • Romulea cruciata var. australis Ewart
  • Romulea elegans Klatt
  • Romulea longifolia (Salisb.) Baker
  • Romulea muirii N.E.Br.
  • Romulea parviflora Eckl.
  • Romulea rosea var. celsii Planch.
  • Romulea rosea var. chloroleuca (Jacq.) Bég.
  • Romulea rosea var. communis M.P.de Vos
  • Romulea rosea var. elegans (Klatt) Bég.
  • Romulea rosea var. muirii (N.E.Br.) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt
  • Syringodea rosea (L.) Klatt

and 6 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.