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Dierama grandiflorum

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Monocotyledons > Order: Asparagales > Family: Iridaceae > Genus: Dierama

Dierama grandiflorum

Dierama grandiflorum flowering in summer in grassland below the cliffs on Gowementsberg in the Kamdeboo Mountains on the Great Escarpment just west of Aberdeen in the Great Karoo, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Dierama grandiflorum Dierama grandiflorum

The Table Mountain Beauty butterfly (Aeropetes tulbaghia) on a flower of Dierama grandiflorum in summer in grassland below the cliffs on Gowementsberg in the Kamdeboo Mountains on the Great Escarpment, just west of Aberdeen in the Great Karoo, Eastern Cape. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Dierama grandiflorum flowering in summer in grassland on Bosberg above Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]