Little white soldiers
Drimiopsis maculata Lindl. & Paxton
- light
- Part sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 33 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Asparagaceae
Also called African false hosta, Leopard plant
Formerly Drimia petiolata, Drimiopsis minor, Ledebouria petiolata
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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
- Bulbous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Desert or dry shrublandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Tanzania to S. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from LLIFLE, one source
- Height
- 30 cm to 36 cmRead from LLIFLE, one source
- Spread
- 30 cmRead from LLIFLE, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -12.2 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from LLIFLE, one source
Not known yet: water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- Chinese
- 闊葉油點百合, 阔叶麻点百合
- Russian
- Дримиопсис пятнистый
- Spanish
- Piel de Leopardo
- Chinese (China)
- 阔叶油点百合
- root
- ucibicibane
- Thai
- รวยล้นฟ้า
- Hebrew
- דרימיופסיס מוכתם
- Finnish
- kiiltotäpliö
- Slovak
- drímiovec škvrnitý
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
- LLIFLE, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Drimiopsis maculata (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.