As Arnold said, it is a Moraea, Homeria subgroup. I've been working on the Moraea wiki pages lately and since during this time I have access to papers I normally wouldn't have, looked at Peter Goldblatt's Homeria monograph with the idea of keying out which ones I have and even trying to figure out if the ones we have on the wiki are correctly identified by species. I decided just to think of mine as hybrids since often the keys didn't quite fit. It could be Moraea collina but looking at the key that one is supposed to be enclosed in grey spathes and mine are all green and they look green in the photo. Other choices sometimes cultivated are Moraea flaccida and Moraea ochroleuca. I'm attaching some of the hybrids that have flowered this spring in my garden. This subgroup can be weedy and is toxic to cattle so we are not supposed to send it out of state. I agree it can spread a bit in the garden, but I am fascinated by the combinations nature creates and there are new flowers over a long period of time and when it dies back the leaves pull out easily. Mary Sue -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: B-Moraea_Homeria-hyb-bi.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 158212 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: B-Moraea-Homeria-hybirds.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 273165 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: B-Moraea-Homeria-hybirds2.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 173890 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…
