"Ray Green" wrote in message
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I found this flower growing at the side of the road and wondered what
it was. The strange thing is that it has no foliage, just stems with
flowers on the end. I'd like some for the garden because it's now
almost November and this little plant is throwing up some great
colour.

I have photos at http://www.w3test.co.uk/flowers/

Any identifictation most appreciated.


Autumn crocus

a google search threw up this image remarkably like yours!

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...ages/harmful_p
lants/autumncrocusimg.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.atomsandants.com/autumncrocus
..htm&h=194&w=300&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dautumn%2Bcrocus%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3De n%2
6lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DN

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