Gladiolus stefaniae


Quick Characteristics:

Flower Colors: red
Flower Season: late summer
Life form: corm
Climate: winter rain climate
 

Gladiolus stefaniae Oberm. grows in the mountains of the southern Cape on rocky slopes in gullies that are wet. It grows up to 60 cm. This species flowers at the end of the dry hot summer after the weather has become cooler and it has started to rain. The flowering stem is produced before the leaf. The large flowers are red with a median white streak in the lower two-thirds of the lower three tepals and are pollinated by the mountain pride butterfly. The first photo from the book Plants of the Klein Karoo courtesy of Jan and Anne Lise Schutte-Vlok. The last two photos by Mary Sue Ittner are close-ups of the first flower (of two) blooming September-October 2008 in Northern California. It has continued to flower, but not increase. It usally flowers in California before our rainy season has started.

Gladiolus stefaniae, Jan and Anne Lise Schutte-VlokGladiolus stefaniae, Mary Sue IttnerGladiolus stefaniae, Mary Sue Ittner


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