It has small leaves that are wide and layered, resembling a spry of water. The leaves are dark green and turn dark red in fall. This shrub also has small pink flowers in the spring and small, bright red fruit in late summer and fall that makes a nice contrast to its brightly-colored leaves. They look nice in a border with mums. It prefers sun to partial shade and well-drained, loose, dry, fertile soil.
Autumn crocus produces leaves in the spring and flowers in the fall.
The plants prefer semi-shade but take full sun if well watered. You can also grow the bulbs indoors in a sunny window without soil or water, but when you force a bulb in this manner you must plant it. The yellow and purple varieties look nice with mums and rockspray. Cyclamen are planted in bulbs, and have heart-shaped leaves that are marbled green and white. Its flowers are pink and white.