Colchicum laetum

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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| genus = Colchicum

| species = laetum

| authority = Steven{{Citation |title=Colchicum laetum |website=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=302876 |access-date=11 September 2012 }}

| synonyms = Colchicum × byzantinum var. laetum (Steven) Nyman

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Colchicum laetum is a species of Colchicum found in south east Russia through to the Caucasus.Steven, Christian von. 1829. Nouveau Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 7: 262, t. 18, Colchicum laetum

A plant known in cultivation as C. laetum 'Pink Star' is thought to be a selection of Colchicum × byzantinum. It has flowers which are pale purple-pink with rounded ends; the petals of each bloom are often held parallel to the soil surface.{{Citation |last=Leeds |first=Roy |year=2006 |title=Autumn Bulbs |publisher=B.T. Batsford |isbn=978-0-7134-8962-0 }}[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11015887#page/752/mode/1up Nyman, Carl Frederik. 1882. Conspectus florae europaeae : seu Enumeratio methodica plantarum phanerogamarum Europae indigenarum, indicatio distributionis geographicae singularum etc. 743, Colchicum × byzantinum var. laetum]