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Botanical details
- Family
- Iridaceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Genus
Tigridia
- Genus description
A genus of 60 bulbous perennials from seasonally dry grasslands or rocky sites in Central America and Peru. Attractive, bright-coloured flowers are fairly short-lived but often open successively from each stem. Each flower has three large outer segments and three shorter, inner ones. The leaves are narrow, sword-shaped
- Name status
Correct
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