Moraea lewisiae

Image: © Gigi Laidler

Description

Flowers are fragrant and a deep yellow speckled with black in the centre, enclosed by green attenuate spathes. It has whiplike leaves, two or three, sometimes single, linear, channelled and trailing above or flat and somewhat twisted.

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Scientific name

Moraea lewisiae

Common name(s)

Ostrich Threadstar

Features

Vegetation types

Genus

Moraea

Family

Iridaceae