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Hesperantha cucullata

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Monocotyledons > Order: Asparagales > Family: Iridaceae > Genus: Hesperantha

Hesperantha cucullata

Hesperantha cucullata flowering next to the Grasberg Road, near Nieuwoudtville, Northern Cape, South Africa. [photo H.G. Robertson, Iziko ©]

Hesperantha cucullata Hesperantha cucullata

Hesperantha cucullata flowering at Glen Lyon, Nieuwoudtville, Northern Cape, South Africa. [photo H.G. Robertson, Iziko ©]

The light pink Hesperantha cucullata flowering in spring with the darker pink Hesperantha pauciflora in renosterveld on the trekpad on the Bokkeveld Escarpment near Nieuwoudtville, Northern Cape, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]