Montbretia - Crocosmia pottsii x aurea = C. x crocosmiiflora
Height about 60 cm. Grows from corms to form dense clumps of upright sword-shaped foliage. It has sprays of bright orange flowers, carried in branched spikes. There are many cultivated varieties and this results in a large amount of variation.
Usually found on disturbed ground, roadside verges or waste places as an escape from cultivation or outcast.
Flowers July to September.
Perennial.
Widespread as an escape from cultivation or outcast in Britain, perhaps less so on the eastern side.
Occasional as an escape from cultivation or outcast in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 13 of the 617 tetrads.
David Gould
G.U. Canal, Aylestone
26 August 2016
David Gould
G.U. Canal, Aylestone
26 August 2016
David Gould
G.U. Canal, Aylestone, Leicester.
25 August 2017
David Gould
G.U. Canal, Aylestone, Leicester.
25 August 2017
Leicestershire & Rutland Map
Enter a town or village to see local records
MAP KEY:
Yellow squares = NBN records (all known data)
Coloured circles = NatureSpot records: 2020+ | 2015-2019 | pre-2015
UK Map
Species profile
- Common names
- Montbretia
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Asparagales
- Family:
- Iridaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 8
- First record:
- 26/08/2016 (Gould, David)
- Last record:
- 17/08/2021 (Calow, Graham)
Total records by month
% of records within its species group
10km squares with records
The latest images and records displayed below include those awaiting verification checks so we cannot guarantee that every identification is correct. Once accepted, the record displays a green tick.
In the Latest Records section, click on the header to sort A-Z, and again to sort Z-A. Use the header boxes to filter the list.
Latest images
Latest records
David Gould
G.U. Canal, Aylestone, Leicester.
25 August 2017
