Darling Wildflower Area
This is the broad area that encompasses the deep sands and renosterveld of Darling and the surrounds.
Nodes
Euphorbia mauritanica
Cynanchum africanum
Tylecodon grandiflorus
Gethyllis ciliaris
Trachyandra scabra
Metalasia
Felicia hyssopifolia
Erica imbricata
Staavia radiata
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Taxonomy term
Gethyllis ciliaris
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From the Latin ciliaris = ‘relating to the eyelash or fine hairs’
Gethyllis latifolia
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From the Latin lati / latus meaning ‘wide’; and folius meaning ‘leaf’; i.e. the plant is broad-leafed
Gethyllis verticillata
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From the Latin verticillatus = 'having whorls', referring to the arrangement of the leaves upon the stem that radiate from a single point
Gladiolus
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La. gladiolus = a small sword; referring to the sword-like shape of the leaves.
Gladiolus angustus
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From the Latin angustus = ‘narrow’
Gladiolus caeruleus
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From the Latin caeruleus = 'dark blue' or 'sky blue'
Gladiolus speciosus
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From the Latin ‘speciosus’ / ‘speciosus’ meaning ‘beautiful’
Gladiolus tenellus
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From the Latin tenellus meaning ‘somewhat tender’
Gorteria personata
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From the Latin ‘personata’ / ‘personata’ meaning ‘the plant called burdock’
Gymnodiscus
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Gk. gymnos = naked; diskos = disk. The receptacle of the flowerhead is flat, naked (nude); the disk florets functionally male.
Haemanthus pubescens
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From the Latin pubescens meaning ‘downy’ with short soft hairs
Helichrysum
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Gk. (h)elios = sun; chrysos = gold; referring to the bright yellow flowerheads of many of the flowers of species in this genus.
Helichrysum cymosum
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From the Latin cymosus = 'cymose' - an arrangement of flowers in a cyme which is an inflorescence in which the primary axis bears a single terminal flower which develops first, the inflorescence being continued by secondary, tertiary, and other axes