🌿 Family

Iridaceae

342 species · Plants

Plantae › Tracheophyta › Liliopsida › Asparagales › Iridaceae

Gladiolus patersoniae F.Bolus

Gladiolus patersoniae F.Bolus is a flowering geophyte native to the winter rainfall regions of South Africa's Cape provinces.

Gladiolus watsonioides Baker

Gladiolus watsonioides Baker, Mackinder's gladiolus, is an East African highland geophyte with red flowers grown in greenhouses.

Gladiolus palustris Gaudin

Gladiolus palustris Gaudin is a flowering plant native to Europe, growing up to 60 cm tall, blooming May-July and pollinated by bumblebees.

Gladiolus communis L.

Gladiolus communis is an Iridaceae flowering perennial native to the Mediterranean-Caucasus region, cultivated as a garden plant.

Gladiolus murielae Kelway

Gladiolus murielae is an eastern African cormous perennial flowering plant widely cultivated for its fragrant late summer blooms.

Crocosmia paniculata (Klatt) Goldblatt

Crocosmia paniculata is a bulbous flowering ornamental native to southern Africa, used locally as an antidiarrhoeal remedy.

Freesia corymbosa (Burm.f.) N.E.Br.

Freesia corymbosa is a perennial geophyte native to South Africa's Eastern and Western Cape, found in fynbos and Albany thickets.

$Freesia refracta (Jacq.) Klatt$

Freesia refracta (Jacq.) Klatt

Freesia refracta is a perennial geophyte endemic to Western Cape fynbos in South Africa.

Freesia caryophyllacea (Burm.f.) N.E.Br.

Freesia caryophyllacea is a small endemic Western Cape fynbos perennial geophyte that has lost 77% of its habitat to ongoing human and invasive plant impacts.

Freesia fergusoniae L.Bolus

Freesia fergusoniae is a fragmented, endemic fynbos perennial geophyte from South Africa's Western Cape, with 70% habitat lost to agriculture.

Freesia grandiflora (Baker) Klatt

Freesia grandiflora is a perennial deciduous geophyte native to parts of southern and central Africa, growing on rocky slopes and grasslands.

Freesia viridis (Aiton) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning

Freesia viridis is a perennial endemic geophyte of South Africa’s Cape provinces that has lost habitat to urban development.

Xenoscapa fistulosa (Spreng. ex Klatt) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning

Xenoscapa fistulosa is a small Iridaceae plant native to coastal southwestern Africa, classified as least concern in 2005.

Sparaxis grandiflora (D.Delaroche) Ker Gawl.

Sparaxis grandiflora, the plain harlequin flower, is an Iridaceae species from South Africa's Western Cape with the RHS Award of Garden Merit.

Crocus banaticus J.Gay

Crocus banaticus is a Balkan autumn-flowering cormous perennial irid that forms its own subgenus and holds a Royal Horticultural Society garden merit award.

Crocus sativus L.

Crocus sativus, saffron crocus, is a cultivated sterile perennial herb harvested to make the culinary and medicinal spice saffron.

Crocus versicolor Ker Gawl.

Crocus versicolor is an iridaceae Crocus species found in parts of southern Europe, flowering from February to April.

Crocus cambessedesii J.Gay

Crocus cambessedesii is a cormous perennial flowering plant native to the Balearic Islands Majorca and Minorca.

Crocus corsicus Vanucchi

Crocus corsicus is a small cormous perennial with violet flowers that holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit.

Crocus thomasii Ten.

Crocus thomasii is a cormous perennial flowering plant in the Iridaceae family, native to the area from southern Italy to Croatia.

Crocus pallasii Goldb.

Crocus pallasii is a Crocus iridaceae species that may be the ancestor of domesticated saffron crocus, native from the Balkans to West Iran.

Crocus longiflorus Raf.

Crocus longiflorus is a small autumn-blooming crocus species from southern Italy, Sicily, and Malta.

Crocus kotschyanus K.Koch

Kotschy's crocus, a short autumn-flowering iridaceous plant from West Asia, holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit.

Crocus ligusticus Mariotti

Crocus ligusticus is a slightly toxic autumn-flowering crocus native to the Maritime Alps that holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit.

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