Editing Crocus (section)

==== Historical sources (chronological) ====

;Antiquity
* {{cite book|last1=Theophrastus|author-link=Theophrastus|editor1-last=Hort|editor1-first=Arthur|title=Περὶ φυτῶν ἱστορία: (Περὶ ὀσμῶν; ''De Odoribus'')|trans-title=Enquiry into Plants: Concerning odours|volume=II|pages=324–489|date=1916|orig-date=4th century BC|publisher=[[William Heinemann]] and [[G. P. Putnam's Sons|G.P. Putnam's Sons]] |series=[[Loeb Classical Library]] |location=London and New York |isbn=978-0-674-99077-7|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/theophrastusiien00theo/page/350/mode/2up|chapter=6. Of the various parts of plants used for perfumes, and of the composition of various notable perfumes, section 27 }}{{link note|note=also available [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Theophrastus/De_odoribus*.html here] on Penelope}}
;14th century 
* {{cite web |last1=BL |authorlink=British Library|title=Detailed record for Egerton 747 (ca. 1300–1330)|url=http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8319&CollID=28&NStart=747|website=Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts |access-date=20 January 2022 |date=2022}}
;16th century
* {{cite book |last1=Turner |first1=William |authorlink=William Turner (naturalist)|title=The Names of Herbes |date=1548|edition=1881 |publisher=[[English Dialect Society|English dialect society]] |location=London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZYIrUD8lP90C |chapter=Crocus|page=31}}
* {{cite book|last1=l'Obel|first1=Matthias de|authorlink=Matthias de l'Obel|title=Plantarum, seu, Stirpium historia. Cui annexum est aduersariorum volumen   |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/7094#/summary|date=1576|publisher=[[Christophori Plantini]]|location=Antwerp|language=latin|chapter=Crocus|page=53|chapter-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37879#page/737/mode/1up}}
* {{Cite book |last1=Gerard |first1=John |author-link=John Gerard |title=The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes |date=1597 |edition=1st |publisher=John Norton |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/mobot31753000817749 |chapter=80. Of Saffron|pages =123–131|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/mobot31753000817749/page/122/mode/2up}} ([[Internet Archive]] version: also here at [[Botanicus]] and here at [[Biodiversity Heritage Library]])
;17th century
* {{cite book |last1=Besler |first1=Basilius |authorlink=Basilius Besler|title=Hortus Eystettensis, sive, Diligens et accurata omnium plantarum, florum, stirpium: ex variis orbis terrae partibus, singulari studio collectarum, quae in celeberrimis viridariis arcem episcopalem ibidem cingentibus, olim conspiciebantur delineatio et ad vivum repraesentatio et advivum repraesentatio opera|date=1640 |origyear=1613|location=Nürnberg|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/45339#/summary|language=latin}}
* {{cite book|last=Parkinson|first=John|authorlink=John Parkinson (botanist)|title=Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris, or, A Choise Garden of All Sorts of Rarest Flowers with their Nature, Place of Birth, Time of Flowering, Names, and Vertues to Each Plant, Useful in Physic or Admired for Beauty: To which is Annext a Kitchin-Garden Furnished with All Manner of Herbs, Roots, and Fruits, for Meat or Sauce Used with Us, with the Art of Planting an Orchard... All Unmentioned in Former Herbals|chapter-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/69836|location=London|publisher=Printed by R.N. and are to be sold by Richard Thrale at his shop at the signe of the Cross-Keys at S. Pauls-gate, going into Cheap-side|year=1656|chapter=Crocus saffron|pages=160–170}}
;18th century
* {{cite book |last=Linnaeus |first=Carl |authorlink=Linnaeus|title=Species Plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/669#/summary|year=1753|volume=1|chapter=Crocus|chapter-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/13829#page/48/mode/1up|page=36|publisher=Impensis Laurentii Salvii|location=Stockholm}}, ''see also'' [[Species Plantarum]]
* {{cite book |last1=Maratti |first1=Giovanni Francesco |authorlink=:es:Giovanni Francesco Maratti|title=Plantarum Romuleae, et Saturniae in agro Romano existentium: specificas notas describit inventor |date=1772 |publisher=Typis Archangeli Casaletti |location=Rome |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ik0aAAAAYAAJ |language=la}}
* {{cite book |last=Jussieu |first=Antoine Laurent de |authorlink=Antoine Laurent de Jussieu|title=Genera plantarum: secundum ordines naturales disposita, juxta methodum in Horto regio parisiensi exaratam, anno M.DCC.LXXIV |location=Paris |year=1789 |oclc=5161409 |url= https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/7125|language=la|chapter=Crocus|page=59|chapter-url= https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/7125#page/154/mode/1up}}
;19th century
* {{cite book|last=Lindley|first=John|author-link=John Lindley|title=The Vegetable Kingdom: or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system|publisher=Bradbury & Evans|location=London|date=1853|orig-year=1846|edition=3rd.|url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/95459#/summary}}
* {{cite book|last1=Bentham|first1=G.|last2=Hooker|first2=J.D.|authorlink1=George Bentham|authorlink2=Joseph Dalton Hooker|title=Genera plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis kewensibus servata definita|volume=III Part II|year=1883|publisher=L Reeve & Co.|location=London|page=693|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/14690#page/254/mode/1up|chapter=Crocus}}
* {{cite book |last1=Maw |first1=George |authorlink=Maw & Co|title=A monograph of the genus Crocus. With an appendix on the etymology of the words crocus and saffron by C.C. Lacaita |date=1886 |publisher=Dulau and Co.|location=London|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/15481}}
** {{cite journal |last1=Nature |title=The Crocus |journal=Nature |date=February 1887 |volume=35 |issue=902 |pages=348–349 |type=Review|doi=10.1038/035348a0|bibcode=1887Natur..35..348. |s2cid=4091523 |doi-access=free }}
* {{cite book |last1=Masclef |first1=Amédée |authorlink=Amédée Masclef|title=Atlas des plantes de France 3 vols |date=1890–1893|volume=3|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/146304|pages=328}}