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From Eustephia on Sunday 12th of July 2026 05:11:58 PM PDT
Eustephia darwinii Vargas is from Peru near Cuzsco. It is a summer-growing plant, and requires a dryish winter to bloom. Height range: 5-10 ft. Photos 1-2 by Diana Chapman show plants that produce their flower stems in the fall. In the Bay Area, this plant blooms in July. Photos 3-6 were taken by Nhu Nguyen of plants grown by Uluwehi Knecht.
From Anticlea on Saturday 11th of July 2026 05:14:42 PM PDT
Anticlea elegans (Pursh) Rydberg (syn Zigadenus elegans). Inflorescences occur in loose racemes or panicles which can be denser at the terminal ends, with 10 to fifty upright cream colored flowers. A. elegans is native to a large range from Eastern Oregon in the West; north to Arkansas, southeast to Texas and east to Quebec and Iowa. It prefers moist and boggy areas and streamside habitats from grasslands to conifer forests. Height range: 30-60 cm. (Source: Flora of Oregon Vol.1: Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, and Monocots, p.312)
Pictures by Linda Foulis.
From Etlingera on Friday 10th of July 2026 05:21:57 PM PDT
Etlingera corneri Mood & Ibrahim also known by the exotic name of Siam Rose, is native to Thailand. Height range: 4-6 ft. The photos below were taken at the Lyon Arboretum, Honolulu HI by Nhu Nguyen.
From Disporum on Thursday 9th of July 2026 05:09:09 PM PDT
Disporum flavens Kitag. (syn. Disporum sessile ssp. flavens (Kitag.) H.S.Kim) is native to Korea and China and bears bright yellow terminal flowers on leafy stems shortly after emerging from dormancy in the spring. Height range: 2-3 ft. Photo taken April 2007 by Jay Yourch. In 2025 both Plants of the World Online and World Flora Online state the accepted name for this species is Disporum uniflorum Baker, but it is still listed as D. flavens elsewhere.
From European And Mediterranean Romuleas on Wednesday 8th of July 2026 05:08:41 PM PDT
Romulea linaresii Parl. is found East Aegean Islands, Greece, Crete, Sicily, Tunisia, and Turkey. It is similar to Romulea ramiflora but each bract has a membranous margin and the entire flower is violet. Height: 5-10 cm. Photos from iNaturalist taken by David Renoult in February in Sicily and shared under a CC BY-NC license.
Romulea linaresii ssp. graeca Bég. is native to Greece, Crete and western Turkey where it grows in wet spots in open woodland, pastures, and shrubby vegetation and flowers February to April. Flowers are smaller than the type, violet purple with yellow anthers above the stigma. Photos from iNaturalist taken by Georgios Mesimeris in Greece in March and shared under a CC BY-NC-SA license.
From Bomarea on Tuesday 7th of July 2026 05:25:19 PM PDT
Bomarea salsilla (L.) Mirb. is a deciduous climbing species from Chile that flowers in late spring/early summer. The first photo was taken by Rob Hamilton, the second by Bob Rutemoeller in Harry Hay's gardens, and the third taken by David Victor of a plant growing in his greenhouse and flowering in May 2005. The fourth photo taken by Mary Sue Ittner of the storage organ during dormancy on a 1 cm square grid
From Disporum on Monday 6th of July 2026 05:04:30 PM PDT
Disporum sessile D.Don ex Schult. & Schult.f. carpets low-elevation woods in Taiwan, Japan, Korea (Cheju and Ullung islands), and Russia (S Kurile Islands and S Sakhalin). It grows to 15-60 cm (6-24"). Pictured in Japan by Mari Kitama in photo 1. Photo 2 from Paige Woodward shows the rhizome and a shoot. She reports that her plants, of Japanese origin, are hardy to Zone 6, perhaps colder and bloom April to May 1-3 with creamy, tubular, green-mouthed bells at the tip of each stalk.
From Schizochilus on Sunday 5th of July 2026 05:17:39 PM PDT
Schizochilus zeyheri Sond. is found in montane grassland from the Eastern Cape to the Northern Province of South Africa. It is tuberous and has large bright yellow flowers in a dense nodding spike. Height range: 5-80 cm. Photos by #1-5 taken by Cameron McMaster in the Eastern Cape. Photo #2 was taken at Mt. Thomas and photo #3 at Gaika's Kop. Photos #4-5 were taken at Satansnek Pass. Photo #6 from Bob Rutemoeller was also taken at Satansnek Pass.
From Devia on Saturday 4th of July 2026 05:01:04 PM PDT
Devia xeromorpha Goldblatt & J.C.Manning is a local endemic of the Roggeveld found near Sutherland. It has a many flowered one-sided spike of long-lived trumpet-shaped pink flowers. Not discovered until the 1980s, it grows in dense clumps and with long narrow, sharp tipped leaves it looks more like the native grasses that grow in the same habitat. Its common name is Ribleaf. It flowers late in the season, in November and December, usually after it has stopped raining. Height range: 10-30 cm. The photo from iNaturalist was taken by Nick Helme in November in the Roggeveld and shared under a CC BY-SA license
From Empodium on Friday 3rd of July 2026 05:41:19 PM PDT
Empodium flexile (Nel) M.F.Thomps. ex Snijman occurs from Namaqualand to Oudtshoorn on clay or sand on stony flats. Growing to 20 cm, it has three pleated leaves, usually dry at flowering, or just appearing. Flowers are pleasantly scented, bright yellow and appear from autumn to early winter after the first good rain.
Photos below from the book Plants of the Klein Karoo courtesy of Jan and Anne Lise Schutte-Vlok.
