Wurmbea stricta(Burm.f.) J.C.Manning & Vinn.

WFO wfo-0000810568 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Wurmbea stricta, photographed by linkie
fig. a linkie, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-09-27 / obs. 97570862
Wurmbea stricta, photographed by Chris Vynbos
fig. b Chris Vynbos, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 52431985
Wurmbea stricta, photographed by Chris Vynbos
fig. c Chris Vynbos, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 24699413
Wurmbea stricta, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. d Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11747494
Wurmbea stricta, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15673695
Wurmbea stricta, photographed by Jacques van der Merwe
fig. f Jacques van der Merwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15559219
Wurmbea stricta, photographed by linkie
fig. g linkie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 53033953
Wurmbea stricta, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15674772

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Wurmbea stricta is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Wurmbea stricta, 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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 290 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 5.4 °C 7.7 °C 10.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.0 °C 27.5 °C 32.5 °C
Annual rainfall 279 mm 790 mm 2,176 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 21 mm 75 mm 216 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 290 research-grade observations of Wurmbea stricta that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 9 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.

  • Anguillaria triquetra (L.f.) F.Muell.
  • Dipidax rosea Salisb.
  • Dipidax triquetra (L.f.) Baker
  • Melanthium junceum Jacq.
  • Melanthium triquetrum L.f.
  • Onixotis stricta (Burm.f.) Wijnands
  • Onixotis triquetra (L.f.) Mabb.
  • Pontederia stricta Burm.f.
  • Wurmbea triquetra (L.f.) F.Muell.

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.