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Plant description:

These plants are very tough and wil tolerate sun or deep shade, poor soils, and dry conditions. The flowers are flat, lacking and upward-pointing petals of an iris, produced in Summer. Individually flowers only lasts a day or two. It bears grass-like foliage. These five spcies are indigenous to Southern Africa, D. bicolor, D. butcheriana, D. flavida, D. grandiflora and D. iridioides.

Family: Iridaceae

Synonym: –

Botanical Pronunciation: DEE-ah-teez

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Botanical name

Dietes spieces

Plant Care

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Flowers

The flowers are flat, lacking and upward-pointing petals of an iris, produced in Summer. Individually flowers only lasts a day or two.

Common name(s)

Wild Iris

Origin

Foliage

This species bears grass-like foliage.

Uses in landscape design

This plants can be used in containers, mass planting, as a ground cover and as accent plants.

Soil conditions

Well drained – Acidic

Interesting info

Tolerates drought , Tolerates full sun , Tolerates poor soil , Tolerates shade

The flowers are flat, lacking and upward-pointing petals of an iris, produced in Summer. Individually flowers only lasts a day or two.

This species bears grass-like foliage.

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