A tough African landscape plant, its leaves are stiff, strap-shaped, dark green and about 1m long. The flowers are white in colour with purple and yellow markings. Flowering goes on for many months in summer. Dietes iridioides attracts butterflies and grows to a height and width of about 1m. It is drought, salt and water logging tolerant. Cape Iris may have weed potential but is not listed as a weed on the National Register.
- Type
- Exotic
- Maintenance
- Low
- Water use
- Minimal
- Lifecycle
- Perennial
- Container
- One
- Size
- Small shrubs 0.5 - 3 metres
- Root size
- Less than 2.5m (safe)
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Zones
- Moist tropical, Semi-arid with summer rain, Moist temperate with hot summers, Arid interior, Semi-arid with winter rain, Moist temperate with warm summers, Winter rains with dry summers
- Tolerances
- Frost, Wind, Salt
- Regions
- Central Highlands Garden, Yarra Valley Water plants, Habitat plants
- Flowering seasons
- Summer
- Colours
- Green, White
- Gardens
- Hardy