A few isolated plants growing adjacent to stream North of the Fair, Mt Majura. Yellow Lily Like flowers about 1-2cm Diameter. Small narrow green leaves about 5-10 cm long. Iris / Lily Family.
Hi Max I think it is one of the Golden Weathergrasses, Hypoxis hygrometrica but as Betty suggested a close-up of the flower with stamens would probably shed a light on the species. Unfortunately, the main photo is blurred. We don't have Golden Weathergrass on our Floralist so this would be a new record. Do you think you can find it again?
I will have s go at refinding it. Unfortunately I didn't realise the photo was blurred up close when I took it. I have not seen this species on Mt Majura / the Fair before. But probably not flowering anymore now ?
I went back and found these plants again. New photos loaded clearly show 6 Anthers, therefore think it's Hypoxis / Golden weather grass. Found a lot more of this species about 50 m further, a field full of them ! Yeah...
Many thanks Max for going through the trouble to find the species again and for taking the wonderful photographs. thanks also for the coordinates they are shown on the right-hand side. But the maps don't show up.
Hm the Census of Vascular Plants 2019 lists 2 varieties: H. hygrometrica var. hygrometrica and H. hygrometrica var. villosisepala. Max do you think you will find them again and could dig out a specimen for id by botanist? they are not endangered and your comments indicate quite a large number. However they might be not visible now as you took the photos of flowering plants back in March. So perhaps for the time being we stick with H hygrometrica.
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