Freesia grandiflora(Baker) Klatt

WFO wfo-0000789528 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Freesia grandiflora, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. a Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-01 / obs. 124533531
Freesia grandiflora, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. b Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109728431
Freesia grandiflora, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. c Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108701979
Freesia grandiflora, photographed by i_c_riddell
fig. d i_c_riddell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29797953
Freesia grandiflora, photographed by Tam
fig. e Tam, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 109406984
Freesia grandiflora, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. f Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59492123
Freesia grandiflora, photographed by Tam
fig. g Tam, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 30809421
Freesia grandiflora, photographed by Nic Knott-Craig
fig. h Nic Knott-Craig, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 61664500

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Freesia grandiflora is native: DR Congo, Eswatini, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe DR CongoEswatiniKwaZulu-NatalMalawiMozambiqueNorthern ProvincesTanzaniaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Freesia grandiflora, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
DR Congo ZAI AFRICA
Eswatini SWZ
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Northern Provinces TVL
Tanzania TAN
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 63 in flower of 64 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Freesia grandiflora observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 63 of 64 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 5 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Anomatheca grandiflora Baker
  • Freesia rubella Baker
  • Lapeirousia graminifolia (Baker) L.Bolus
  • Lapeirousia grandiflora (Baker) Baker
  • Tritonia graminifolia Baker

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.