General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Water Preferences: Wet Mesic
Plant Height: 4 to 6 feet (1.2-1.8 m)
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Orange
Red
Yellow
Bi-Color: Red and yellow
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Underground structures: Corm
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Hummingbirds
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Offsets

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Common names
  • Crocosmia
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Crocosmia fucata
  • Synonym: Tritonia fucata
  • Synonym: Montbretia fucata

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Drawing by W. Hebert from Edwards’s Botanical Register, vol. 24

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