2 Watsonias for confirmation
Mary Sue Ittner (Mon, 09 Apr 2018 10:39:45 PDT)

In the Color Encyclopedia and I think on the wiki as well W. humilis is
15 to 40 cm and W. laccata 30 to 40 cm tall. Besides often being shorter
W. humilis doesn't usually have as many flowers per spike. If you look
at the key in that book, one of the earlier separators is

flower tube short or long but gradually flaring above - eventually gets
to W. laccata
bracts for that species are 10 to 20 mm, clasping the stem

flower tube long, slender below but widening abruptly into a broadly
cylindrical upper part - eventually gets to W. humilis. The bracts are
an important way to identify them. W humilis - bracts 20 to 30 mm long
overlapping and keeled in the midline

John Manning once wrote that unless you control for pollination,
resultant seed will turn out to produce a hybrid which makes
identification to a species level when looking at plants a challenge.

Mary Sue

On 4/9/2018 9:04 AM, Chad Schroter wrote:

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