Yellow Fortnight Lily
Dietes bicolor (Steud.) Sweet ex Klatt
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 75 cm
- wide
- —
Iridaceae
Also called Peacock Flower, African lily
Formerly Moraea bicolor
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Perennial or helophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. Cape Prov. to S. KwaZulu-NatalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 51 cm to 99 cmRead from Royal Horticultural Society, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -5 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from Royal Horticultural Society, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (10)
- Spanish
- Iris sudafricana bicolor
- Portuguese
- Olho-de-tigre
- Chinese
- 雙色非洲鳶尾, 雙色野鳶尾, 褐斑璃被鳶尾
- Chinese (China)
- 双色野鸢尾, 褐斑离被鸢尾
- Afrikaans
- Poublom, Uiltjie
- German
- Gelbe Pfauenblume
- Russian
- Диетес двуцветный
- Hebrew
- דיאטס דו-גוני
- Finnish
- täpläperhoiiris
- Hungarian
- Kétlaki kaffernőszirom
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Royal Horticultural Society, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Dietes bicolor (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.