Colchicum autumnale L.
Conservation status: C
First record: Relhan, 1786 Last record: WH Mills, 1926
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Grounds of Hildersham Hall. Presumably planted. FH Perring & SM Walters, 5.1957. 65
Autumnal Colchicum, or Meadow–saffron. Wood Ditton; in a Close on the south side of Mr. Eaton's House. Relhan,1786;1802;1820.
In a close on the south side of Mr Eaton's house at Wood Ditton; Relhan. Bab.1860,237.
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Colch aut... on 17th August , 1908, Mr RL Wormald of Weston Colville shewed a patch of it to a small company of Cambridge botanists in a wood near that village, and told them that he had picked the flowers there for ten or fifteen years. Evans,1911,215.
Weston Colville, Wormald, Aug 1909, CGE.
West Wratting, AH Evans, Sept 1909, CGE.
Wood near Weston Colville, 1909, 1910, 1911, CEM ann.
Weston Colville, AS Shrubbs, Sept 1912, CGE.
... and near a moat at Weston Colville up to 1920. WM Palmer ann.Bab.
Gt Covert Wood, Weston Colville, nr intersection of the droves in E. drove 10 yds from crossing, 19.9.1926, Mills ann.
