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I second the Crocus society and have been participating in the exchange for a couple of years now.  Always an interesting list though names are not always up to date from the donors.  It is a good place to start.

Well.... Maybe not as bright blue as I remember.... I checked this website https://flora-on.pt/#1Hyacinthoides+vicentina which is an excellent reference for Portuguese plants. I tried to copy a picture into this reply but it did not work.

Hmmmmm... Hyacinthoides vicentina grows not far from me on the Cape of St. Vincent, hence its name. This cape is the very south westerly end of Europe. I do not have a picture of the wild plant at hand. Does your picture show the color accurately? The typical form is bright blue and not almost white. And your plant seems to be somewhat too big and too lush but that might depend on the growing conditions. The wild population grows on pure sand. I agree that it is a very nice thing you have there.

I also posted the picture on Instagram and was pointed by Rimmer to Hyacinthoides mauritanica ssp vicentina.  Or Hyacinthoides vicentina if you prefer.  This seems to be the best fit when I look at it closely.  It doesn't have the really blue anthers of the Tractema verna.  Whatever it is I rather like it and hope to spread it around. 

I am growing crocus from The Crocus Group seed exchange.  This is an informal group, an off-shoot of the British Iris Society.  Anyone can join the group.  The only charge is to cover cost of the seed exchange, there's no membership fee.  If you want seeds, you email a request for the list.

One seedlist I have kept has 89 offerings.  That doesn't mean there were 89 species - there were 8 collections of C pallasii, for example, from different areas of Turkey. 

Many are still in pots, having never flowered, but some I put in the garden.  C boryi and goulimyi bloomed and were eaten, probably by rabbits.

The Scottish Rock Garden Society website includes The Crocus Pages with descriptions and photos of many crocus    https://www.srgc.org.uk/genera/index.php?log=crocus

Unfortunately for you, the USA has regulations for importing seeds that make it too much of a bother to send seeds to you.

Diane

Doing a search on the PBS wiki for California and Crocus gives:

https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/SpringBloomingCrocusFour
https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/SpringBloomingCrocusThree
https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/FallBloomingCrocusTwo

I gather California is a big state with a varying climate from North to South. But now you've said where, maybe some forum members from there will chip in.

Sorry! My location is Los Angeles California!

"here" may mean, here on the forum, and is a valid question.
Of course in discussion "here" may soon mean locality, and it is a good idea to set up your fourum profile (top left of page) to show it over on the left of your replies.

I grow and have grown loads of different crocus species. There is pleasure to be had. They are fairly inexpensive and commonly available from the usual suppliers of Dutch bulbs. The ones that survive long term untended in the garden are the large Dutch hybrids and Crocus tommasinianus - that is of course here in the North of England.

You can find my photos in the PBS wiki crocus pages (search on my surname).

https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Crocus

I have tried but I can't recall ever growing a crocus to flowering from seed. So any photos are of the commercial varieties.

Hi. It is Chiapas, and chiapasiana.

POWO lists H. cleo as an accepted species, with the synonym Hymenocallis chiapasiana T.M.Howard in Pl. Life 35: 56 (1979)

Hello,

Welcome to the forum. As this forum is being used by an international community it would be great if you would specify where ,,here" is....... And it is also nice to know a name. You can set up an automatic signature like in this reply so that you do not need to do that in every individual post.
Your question is very good and once your locality is clear you should get a friendly reply. 

Bye for now