Botanical name

Eriospermum schlechteri

Family

Asparagaceae

Common Name

Yellow Cottonseed
Eriospermum schlechteri
Eriospermum schlechteri
Eriospermum schlechteri
Eriospermum schlechteri
Eriospermum schlechteri
Eriospermum schlechteri

Description

Tuberous geophyte up to 25cm. Leaf is usually dry at flowering, erect, elliptical, ribbed, 45 x 20mm. Flowers in a lax raceme on a wiry peduncle, star-shaped, bright yellow, up to 12mm across; pedicels wiry up to 20mm long.

Habitat

Sandstone slopes in fynbos

Flower Date

February to April often after fire