Colchicum corsicum

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|status=VU

|status_system=IUCN3.1

|status_ref={{cite iucn |author=Juillet, N. |date=2011 |title=Colchicum corsicum |volume=2011 |page=e.T161885A5508819 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T161885A5508819.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| image = Colchicum corsicum.JPG

| image_caption = Colchicum corsicum, Northeast Corsica

| genus = Colchicum

| species = corsicum

| authority = Baker

| synonyms_ref =

| synonyms = *Colchicum neapolitanum var. corsicum (Baker) Fiori

• Colchicum autumnale var. corsicum (Baker) Fiori

}}

Colchicum corsicum is a species of flowering plant in the Colchicaceae family.{{cite web|url= https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:533270-1|title= Colchicum corsicum Baker|author=|date=n.d.|website=Plants of the World Online|publisher=The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|access-date=July 19, 2020}} It is native to the islands of Corsica and Sardinia in the Mediterranean.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=302815 Kew Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Colchicum corsicum]

Colchicum corsicum is a perennial growing from an underground corm. Some individuals have pink flowers, others white, the two very often being intermingled in different individuals within a given population.Baker, John Gilbert. 1879. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 17: 481, Colchicum corsicumAutumn Bulbs by Roy Leeds (B.T. Batsford Ltd) 2006 {{ISBN|0-7134-8962-6}}