Appearance
''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 , 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 and narrower tepals have been separated off under various names . All are treated as ''S. lutea'' in the Kew World Checklist.
Naming
The Latin specific epithet ''lutea'' means “yellow flowered”.References:
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