This small bulb is common throughout the Mediterranean region, but also penetrating the semid-deserts in Israel. It used to be called Gynandriris sisyrinchium, but know united with many Moraeas in South Afrcia (its origin). Each plant has normally only 2 leaves and one stem that bears several flowers. The flowers open in the afternoon for a few hours (hence its common name - afternoonn Iris). The small corms produces stolons that bears solitary bulbles in the edge.
A small Mediterranean cormous plant.Leaves 2, arched. Flowers iris-like, violet, open only in the afternoon. It grows in diverse sunny habitats, here you can see it growing on the coast emerging out of dead shells.
