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Gladiolus is the birth flower of August. [21] Gladioli are the flowers associated with a fortieth wedding anniversary. American Ragtime composer Scott Joplin composed a rag called “Gladiolus Rag” [22] "Gladiolus" was the word Frank Neuhauser correctly spelled to win the 1st National Spelling Bee in 1925. [23]
detail of a flower habit. Gladiolus watsonioides is a medium to high, roughly ½–1 m, herbaceous geophyte with sword-shaped leaves, flattened in the plain of the stem, with spikes of red, curved, funnel-shaped, slightly bilaterally symmetrical flowers.
The flowers appear from late-winter to spring (populations at lower altitudes flower earlier). They are fragrant and can be a range of colours: blue, greyish, white or pink. The flower's corolla tube is short, and there is a band of yellow (often with darker outline) horizontally across the three bottom tepals.
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Gladiolus × byzantinus (syn. Gladiolus communis subsp. byzantinus), the eastern gladiolus, Byzantine gladiolus, or Byzantine sword-lily, is a naturally occurring hybrid species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae. [2] [3] Its parents are Gladiolus dubius and Gladiolus italicus.
Gladiolus 'White Prosperity' is a cultivar of 'Gladiolus' (Gladiolus grandiflora), it has large, pure white flowers with ruffled petals, blooming from mid to late summer. It grows from corms and has sword-like leaves. It has flower spikes that can be from 90 cm, [5] [6] to 120 cm tall. [3] [7] They bloom in mid summer, [3] between July–August ...
Gladiolus communis, the eastern gladiolus, [2] or common corn-flag, [3] [4] is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae, native to temperate northern Africa, western Asia and southern Europe, from the Mediterranean to the Caucasus, [4] and widely naturalised in frost-free locations elsewhere – such as coastal parts of the southwestern British Isles.
Gladiolus dalenii is a species of flowering plant in the iris family Iridaceae. It is one of the most widely distributed species of Gladiolus, ranging from eastern South Africa and Madagascar throughout tropical Africa and into western Arabia. [1] It is the main parental species of the large flowering grandiflora hybrids.
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