Watsonia marginata
Family
Iridaceae
Flora category
Vascular – Exotic
Structural class
Herbs - Monocots
Conservation status
Not applicable
Features
Grows up to 1.5m tall with basal leaves up to 500 mm long. The flowers are pale violet with a white to purplish red triangular mark on each petal.
Similar taxa
Distinguishable from Watsonia bulbillifera by lack of bulbils on stem.
Flowering
October - December
Flower colours
Violet/Purple, White
Year naturalised
1959
Origin
South Africa
Etymology
marginata: From the Latin marginatus ‘edge, margin’, where one colour is surrounded by a very narrow rim of another