Thank you Dylan and Lauw for G. communis and G. italicus. I agree both these species resemble my plant in some ways. At first, from most photos, I would have agreed with G. communis. But based on anther length and corm texture, my best guess now is G. italicus, now that I have seen the Bulb Garden article. The Gladiolus italicus in the Bulb'Argence picture see: http://bulbargence.com/m_catalogue/article.php/… has floral bracts tinted red or purplish-green. Is that just the lighting in the photo? My un-labeled Gladiolus has floral bracts the same color as its leaves, a light to medium green with no hint of red. My Gladiolus petals are narrow and pointed, but not quite as dramatically as the above Gladiolus italicus. And the white streaks on the bottom petals are not as pronounced. But there is a resemblance. Looking at the Gladiolus italicus photos on the PBS wiki I do see a resemblance between mine and the first photo, but not the 4th photo. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Not an identical match, but close. But that photo does not resemble the G. italicus on the Bulb'Argence site. I looked at Gladiolus communis as Dylan suggested and some of the photos on google image do resemble my plant, others do not. The photo on the pbs wiki http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… has petals more broad than mine and more blooms per stalk. Having narrowed the field, I looked for a key to distinguish these two species. I found a thesis about G. illyricus in Britain which also covers G. italicus adn G. communis and keys those two apart by the length of the anther relative to the filament. (I do wonder if anthers and filaments shrink the same amount as they dry for herbarium preparation.) page 10 G. communis = anther shorter than filament G. italicus = anther longer than filament I took new photos to show that on my unlabeled Gladiolus, the anthers are longer than the filaments. http://flickr.com/photos/gastils_garden/… The thesis 'The Taxonomic Status of Gladiolus illyricus (Iridaceae) in Britain' by Aeron Buchanan got those criteria from T. G. Tutin, V. H. Heywood, N. A. Burges and D. H. Valentine (Editors), 1980, Flora Europaea. Volume 5. Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones), Cambridge University Press. Before I was a PBS member, there was an article in The Bulb Garden which describes the Italian Gladiolus species. A draft of that article was mailed to me this morning and this clears up the matter. Angelo Porcelli writes about how the seeds of G. italicus are unique in that they are not winged. I will have to wait to see seeds. Comparing my corms to his, I would lean toward G. italicus. And he writes that G. italicus is a prolific offsetter, which mine are. The middle tepals of mine do not overlap the top and bottom tepals, which indicates G. italicus over G. communis. I am going to label mine as Gladiolus cf. italicus (cf loosely means "best guess"). Thank you PBS for good info, as usual. - Gastil