Dragon's-head Lily
ഗ്ലാഡിയോലസ് ഡാലെനി
Gladiolus dalenii Van Geel
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 1.2 m
- wide
- 30 cm
Iridaceae
Also called African Gladiolus, Dragonhead Gladiolus
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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Tuberous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & S. Africa, Madagascar, SW. Arabian Pen.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 99 cm to 1.5 mRead from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, orange, redRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -5 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (6)
- Spanish
- Gladiolo naranja
- Finnish
- liekkimiekkalilja
- Slovak
- mečík Dalenov
- Chinese (China)
- 达氏唐菖蒲
- Chinese
- 鹦鹉唐菖蒲
- Malayalam
- ഗ്ലാഡിയോലസ് ഡാലെനി
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Gladiolus dalenii (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.