Nederlands:
Español: Gladiolo silvestre - Lirio
Français: Glaïeul des moissons - Glaïeul d'Italie
Deutsch: Italienische Gladiole
Family: Iridaceae - Iris family
Flowering time: May-June
Height: 50-80cm
Altitude: 4000-1300m
Colour: bright pink to magenta or fuchsia
Flower: 25-45mm long, more or less pointing in one direction, 6-15 flowers to a spike
Leaves: 3-5, 5-17mm wide the upper narrower than the lower, irregularly veined
Habitat: cultivated land, particularly cereal fields, roadsides, rocky hillslopes, garrigue
Distribution: native to the mediterranean region (southwards of central France)
Notes: Italian Gladiolus is occasionally sold as a cut flower. It is quite similar to Gladiolus illyricus that grows for example in the Pyrenees. The anthers of Gladiolus italicus are clearly longer than the filaments which is not the case with Gladiolus illyricus.
Related key words: El Hervidero, Sierra Nevada, Sierra de Huétor, Granada, Anducía, Andalusia, Andalusië, Spain, Alps
