page_title: Sternbergia lutea
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Sternbergia lutea / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: A Sternbergia lutea flower showing all its yellow parts: the six grey-striated tepals, the six yellow stamens, and the style with its stigma.
context_page_description: Sternbergia lutea, the winter daffodil, autumn daffodil, fall daffodil, lily-of-the-field, or yellow autumn crocus, is a bulbous flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae, which is used as an ornamental plant. It has yellow flowers which appear in autumn.
  The Latin specific epithet lutea means “yellow flowered”.
context_section_description: Sternbergia lutea has a wide distribution from the Balearic Islands in the Western Mediterranean through to Tajikistan in Central Asia. It dies down to a bulb during the summer. Leaves first appear in the autumn (September to November in its native habitats), and are glossy green, up to 12 mm wide; they remain through the winter.
  Deep yellow flowers appear soon after the leaves, with six tepals around 3–3.5 mm long., six yellow stamens and a style with a single stigma.
  Smaller forms with narrower leaves (up to 5 mm wide) and narrower tepals (3–12 mm rather than 10–20 mm) have been separated off under various names (e.g. S. lutea var. graeca, S. sicula). All are treated as S. lutea in the Kew World Checklist.
caption: A Sternbergia lutea flower showing all its yellow parts: the six grey-striated tepals, the six yellow stamens, and the style with its stigma
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