The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Names are linked to treatments from the Manual


Key to GLADIOLUS

N.B.: couplets are linked, e.g., 1. is linked to 1'.

  1. Flower 4–5 cm; perianth purplish pink to reddish, tube < 1 cm; basal leaf 5–15 mm wide, flat, not twisted
G. italicus
  1' Flower 5–9 cm; perianth white to yellow, generally green-tinged, tube generally 4–6 cm; basal leaf < 5 mm wide, 4-angled, ± twisted
G. tristis


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