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A bulbous perennial, sternbergia sicula brings a taste of spring in the depths of autumn. Sharing the popular common name for this genus, the autumn daffodil, it blooms spectacularly with six-petalled daffodil-yellow blossoms, opening wide to create a star-shaped head. Its foliage is a lush dark green, with narrow, thick and erect leaves that sometimes have light grey stripes. The autumn daffodil happily grows in rocky locations, but does not like wet weather. So, only plant in locations with very good drainge, like rockeries, and in well-sheltered areas. A superb choice for gravel beds too, but in cool conservatories growing conditions can be fully controlled.