Bobartia lilacina Seeds - Indigenous South African Perennial Bulb Seeds - Worldwide Shipping

Bobartia is an evergreen genus in the Iridaceae family that has a creeping or erect rhizome as a rootstock. Most of the flowers are yellow. The 14 species are found in the western and eastern Cape of South Africa and are mostly montane and found in rocky sandstone soils. The Bobartia genus is named after the first curator of the Oxford Botanic Garden, Jacob Bobart.

Bobartia lilacina is a South African endemic species from the Western Cape Province. It is an evergreen species found on mountain slopes on shale and hails from Bain's Kloof to Franschhoek. It grows from 30cm to 70 cm and has narrowly sword-shaped leaves and is the only species with violet flowers.