Hi, I'm finished for the moment with the Moraea subgroup additional pictures although there is still Homeria and Gynandriris left. I'm finding Homeria really hard because there are a lot of species and we saw so many on our trip. They look really different to me, but so many of the descriptions sound the same. What seems like an obvious difference in the flowers isn't even mentioned in any of the descriptions of the different species that grow in areas where we saw them. There are a lot of additional pictures added of the species already illustrated on this page: http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Three new species: Moraea saxicola Moraea speciosa Moraea stricta Habitat pictures for Moraea serpentina and Moraea tripetala have been added. Moraea serpentina was quite a thrill. For one thing we saw it when we were with Bob and Marlene Werra so his enthusiasm was contagious. Second we saw it in mass. As he said later, the flower is fugacious. It doesn't open except under certain conditions. If it blooms, it may not bloom again for days. What was the chance that we happened to drive by on our way to Namaqualand from Nieuwoudtville and find all these flowers blooming at once? The next day or another time of day we'd pass that way and see nothing at all. My husband and I drove back that way after our visit in Namaqualand as we wanted to take the drive the back way from Nieuwoudtville to Clanwilliam to see if anything was still blooming in the Biedouw Valley and our timing was perfect because once again they were in bloom. Bob managed to capture a very colorful caterpillar on one flower for all the insect fans in our group. The coiling leaves were mostly dried up but the flowers still were going strong. That is the interesting thing about some of these long blooming fugacious Moraeas. You look at the plant and are sure it's done for the year. The leaves are dry and the flowering stalk doesn't look promising and then one afternoon you are passing by and a flower has appeared out of nowhere. We saw a lot of Moraea tripetala, but it grows both in rocky sandstone and clay soils in many different areas in the winter rainfall part of South Africa. There is a picture from Alan Horstmann showing an almost white form. Mary Sue