Harlequin flower
Sparaxis tricolor (Schneev.) Ker Gawl.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- —
- wide
- —
Iridaceae
Also called Harlequin Silklily, Wandflower
Formerly Ixia tricolor, Sparaxis blanda, Sparaxis griffinii, Sparaxis lineata, and 3 more
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
- Tuberous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- WC. Cape Prov. (N. Bokkeveld Escarpment)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: height, spread, water, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (8)
- German
- Dreifarbiges Fransenschwertel
- Russian
- Спараксис трёхцветный
- Polish
- Sparaksis trójbarwny
- Chinese (China)
- 三色魔杖花
- Japanese
- スイセンアヤメ
- Slovak
- harlekýnka trojfarebná
- Turkish
- Gökkuşağı Çiçeği
- Chinese
- 三色魔杖花
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
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
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.