Crocus baytopiorum is a spring flowering herbaceous perennial geophyte growing from a corm.

The 13 cm wide corm is a flatted egg shape.

A spathe (sheath that covers the flower before it opens) subtends the inflorescence.

[2] Crocus baytopiorum is native to limestone screes, rocky gullies, in open pine and juniper woodland.

[3] The species was named in honor of Professors Turhan & Asuman Baytop from Istanbul,[2] who discovered it in 1973 and it was described by the Kew botanist Brian Mathew.