Sparaxis tricolor(Schneev.) Ker Gawl.

Harlequin flower

WFO wfo-0000785521 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Sparaxis tricolor, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. a Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-01 / obs. 185726753
Sparaxis tricolor, photographed by Jay Paroline
fig. b Jay Paroline, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184795075
Sparaxis tricolor, photographed by Jay Paroline
fig. c Jay Paroline, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184794988
Sparaxis tricolor, photographed by Andrew Lie
fig. d Andrew Lie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183760844
Sparaxis tricolor, photographed by Jake McCumber
fig. e Jake McCumber, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180629851
Sparaxis tricolor, photographed by Jake McCumber
fig. f Jake McCumber, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180629835
Sparaxis tricolor, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. g Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166756622
Sparaxis tricolor, photographed by Samuel Brown
fig. h Samuel Brown, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164537332

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Flowering n = 539 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 539 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 11 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.

  • Ixia tricolor Schneev.
  • Sparaxis blanda Sweet
  • Sparaxis grandiflora var. lineata (Sweet) Baker
  • Sparaxis griffinii Sweet
  • Sparaxis lineata Sweet
  • Sparaxis tricolor var. blanda (Sweet) Baker
  • Sparaxis tricolor var. griffinii (Sweet) Baker
  • Sparaxis tricolor var. versicolor (Sweet) Baker
  • Sparaxis versicolor Sweet
  • Streptanthera lineata (Sweet) Klatt
  • Streptanthera tricolor (Schneev.) Klatt

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.

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