Gladiolus inflexus


Quick Characteristics:

Flower Colors: purple, patterned
Life form: corm
Climate: winter rain climate
 

Gladiolus inflexus Goldblatt & J.C.Manning is endemic to only a few places in the Southwestern Cape where it grows in sandstone derived gravel. Growing from 20 to 35 cm, it has 1 to 3 purple flowers formed on a wiry bent stem. The sweetly scented flowers have a strongly arched dorsal tepal and a large lower median tepal that is greater than the lower laterals. The bases of the tepals and the throat are cream with the lower tepals speckled to blotched purple. Flowering time is mid to late July, sometimes into August. The first photo was taken by Rachel Saunders. The next three were taken by Alan Horstmann.

Gladiolus inflexus, Rachel SaundersGladiolus inflexus, Alan HorstmannGladiolus inflexus, Alan HorstmannGladiolus inflexus, Alan Horstmann

The next three photos from iNaturalist were taken by Douglas Euston-Brown in July near Worcester and shared under a CC BY-SA license.

Gladiolus inflexus, Douglas Euston-Brown, iNaturalist, CC BY-SAGladiolus inflexus, Douglas Euston-Brown, iNaturalist, CC BY-SAGladiolus inflexus, Douglas Euston-Brown, iNaturalist, CC BY-SA


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