Watsonia marginata
Biostatus
Exotic
Conservation status
Not applicable
Category
Vascular
Structural class
Herbs - Monocots
Flower colours
Violet/Purple, White
Detailed description
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.
Detailed taxonomy
Genus
Family
Endemic family
No
Ecology
Flowering
October - December
Year naturalised
1959
Origin
South Africa
Other information
Etymology
watsonia: Named after Sir William Watson, an English botanist (1715 – 1787)
marginata: From the Latin marginatus ‘edge, margin’, where one colour is surrounded by a very narrow rim of another