Moraea vegetaL.

WFO wfo-0000784940 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Moraea vegeta, photographed by Tim Kirsten
fig. a Tim Kirsten, CC0 1.0 / 2021-10-09 / obs. 162851233
Moraea vegeta, photographed by Tim Kirsten
fig. b Tim Kirsten, CC0 1.0 / obs. 162843732
Moraea vegeta, photographed by Brian du Preez
fig. c Brian du Preez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 99522062
Moraea vegeta, photographed by Noeleen du Toit
fig. d Noeleen du Toit, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 97586348
Moraea vegeta, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 52531815
Moraea vegeta, photographed by Chris Vynbos
fig. f Chris Vynbos, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 50810447
Moraea vegeta, photographed by Brian du Preez
fig. g Brian du Preez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 65818695
Moraea vegeta, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 16110463

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Moraea vegeta is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Moraea vegeta, 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
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA

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.

Also published as 16 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.

  • Dietes vegeta (L.) N.E.Br.
  • Ferraria tristis (L.f.) Salisb.
  • Iris crassifolia Anon.
  • Iris crassifolia Lodd., G.Lodd. & W.Lodd.
  • Iris tristis L.f.
  • Moraea iriopetala L.f.
  • Moraea iriopetala var. juncea (L.) L.f.
  • Moraea iriopetala var. vegeta (L.) L.f.
  • Moraea juncea sensu N.E.Br.
  • Moraea juncea L.
  • Moraea sordescens Jacq.
  • Moraea tristis (L.f.) Ker Gawl.
  • Vieusseuxia graminifolia Eckl.
  • Vieusseuxia juncea Eckl. ex Steud.
  • Vieusseuxia rivularis Eckl.
  • Vieusseuxia tristis Eckl.

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.

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