Roggeveld

The Roggeveld for our purposes is an area that extends from Calvinia southward along the Roggeveld Escarpment to the foothills at Matjiesfontein. It is a very dry area with most of the rainfall occurring in winter. Rain averages 125-250 mm (5-10 inches) a year with the escarpment getting the higher amount. There are summer thunderstorms, but these amount to only about 20 mm of rain. The Roggeveld is a fairly flat, rocky plain with isolated steep sided mountains. Winter temperatures are cool and frost and snow is usual. In fact, Sutherland in this area is one of the colder spots in South Africa. The best displays of bulbs occur along the edges of the Escarpment and the Hantamsberg, a flat-topped mountain at Calvinia. Soils are fine grained from shale or dolerite.

Most years members of the Indigenous Bulb Association of South Africa visit Middelpos in the spring and stay there for several nights in order to look for plants during the day. They visit the Komsberg on the way coming or going and many farms in the surrounding area. Many of the pictures taken by Bob Rutemoeller, Mary Sue Ittner, and Cameron McMaster were taken on one of those trips.

Photos taken in this area can be seen by looking at the pages arranged alphabetically by species or by clicking on the name in the table. More information about each species pictured can be found on the wiki genus page for each genus illustrated.

Roggeveld a-f - Roggeveld g-k - Roggeveld l-o - Roggeveld p-z

Information about the specific plant can be found by clicking on the name in the table. That will take you to the wiki page that has information and photos of that species. By holding the shift or control key down and clicking on the thumbnail image in the table can be enlarged and then if you hold your mouse over the top left or right side of the photo an arrow will appear that will allow you to view the photos in the table in sequence.

Roggeveld species
Albuca concordiana	Albuca namaquensis	Albuca suaveolens	Androcymbium burchellii*
Androcymbium latifolium*	Androcymbium volutare*	Babiana cuneata	Babiana praemorsa
Babiana virginea	Boophone haemanthoides	Brunsvigia bosmaniae	Brunsvigia josephinae
Bulbine sp.	Bulbine torta	Bulbinella cauda-felis	Bulbinella elegans
Bulbinella nutans	Colchicum burchellii ssp. burchellii	Colchicum burchellii ssp. pulchrum	Colchicum volutare
Chlorophytum undulatum	Cyanella lutea	Daubenya aurea	Daubenya marginata
Drimia filifolia	Empodium occidentale*	Eriospermum sp.	Ferraria variabilis
Geissorhiza heterostyla	Gethyllis roggeveldensis	Gethyllis villosa	Gladiolus ceresianus
Gladiolus karooicus	Gladiolus pritzelii	Gladiolus splendens	Gladiolus uysiae
Gladiolus venustus	Hesperantha cucullata	Hesperantha flava	Hesperantha humilis
Hesperantha marlothii	Hesperantha pilosa	Hesperantha radiata	Holothrix aspera
Ixia curvata	Ixia marginifolia	Ixia rapunculoides	Ixia trifolia
Kniphofia sarmentosa	Lachenalia congesta	Lachenalia doleritica	Lachenalia obscura
Lachenalia spp.	Lachenalia summerfieldii	Lachenalia violacea	Lachenalia zebrina
Lapeirousia montana	Lapeirousia plicata	Massonia depressa	Moraea amabilis
Moraea bifida	Moraea ciliata	Moraea crispa	Moraea fenestrata
Moraea grandis	Moraea karroica	Moraea macronyx	Moraea miniata
Moraea pritzeliana	Moraea reflexa	Ornithogalum multifolium	Oxalis heterophylla
Oxalis obtusa	Oxalis palmifrons	Pauridia alticola	Pauridia capensis
Pauridia serrata	Romulea atrandra	Romulea austinii	Romulea diversiformis
Romulea hantamensis	Romulea hirta	Romulea komsbergensis	Romulea luteoflora
Romulea monadelpha	Romulea subfistulosa	Romulea syringodeoflora	Romulea tetragona
Romulea tortuosa	Romulea unifolia	Saniella occidentalis*	Spiloxene capensis*
Spiloxene serrata*	Tritonia karooica	Veltheimia capensis	Wurmbea spicata
Wurmbea variabilis	Xenoscapa fistulosa