Flower Colour: Pink

  • Verbena bonariensis

    Posted on by s2Invasive status in SA: Cat. 1b. Origin: Brazil. Tall herb with square stems covered with stiff hairs.  Widespread in the southern Cape wherever there is moist ground-hence also known as the Blouwater Bossie. Imported alien growing in the long grass... Read more »

  • Veltheimia bracteata

    Posted on by s2This bulbous plant with wavy strap-shaped, glossy green leaves is deciduous with leaves dying back in Summer. The reddish-pink flowers are held in upright racemes of up to 60 flowers. They appear upright and in tight buds before flowering but... Read more »

  • Tulbaghia violacea

    Posted on by s2These scented plants are prolific during the Summer months in Steenbok Nature Reserve. They grow from fat and tuberous roots. The leaves are long, narrow, strap-like and slightly fleshy, smelling of garlic when bruised. The flowers sit high above the... Read more »

  • Polygala myrtifolia

    Posted on by s2This evergreen sprawling or erect shrub / tree grows well on Leisure Isle and in both SteenbokPark and KingfisherCreek. It flowers intermittently throughout the year but is at its best during spring (hence its common name) and summer. The branches... Read more »

  • Plectranthus fruticosus

    Posted on by s2The forest spur-flower is a fast growing soft-wooded shrub, with largely soft textured heart-shaped leaves that are toothed which produces masses of attractive pyramidal spikes of pink or bluish-mauve flowers. The larvae of certain butterflies feed on this plant and... Read more »

  • Persicaria decipiens

    Posted on by s2Not listed in NEMBA legislation, however it is a troublesome weed smothering other natural vegetation. A straggling plant with stems up to 1 m long covering quite large patches in marshy places. The leaves have russet shading and the tiny... Read more »

  • Pelargonium scabrum

    Posted on by s2This lovely shrub is fairly erect and can grow to 1.2m, Its leaves are palmatisect (meaning they are divided to just before the petiole), roughly hairy and lemon-scented.  The flowers are clustered with white edges changing to pink towards the... Read more »

  • Pelargonium multicaule

    Posted on by s2This is a striking sprawling much branched, hairy stemmed perennial shrub which is great as a groundcover. The hairless leaves are in opposite pairs to eachother and deeply divided almost to the midrib but not into separate leaflets. The long... Read more »

  • Pelargonium domesticum

    Posted on by s2This imported hybrid lives at “peace” on the northern shores of Leisure Isle. The genus Pelargonium gets its name from the fact that the shape its fruit looks like the beak of a stork, pelargos in Greek.  Domesticus, domesticated plant.  The plant has a... Read more »

  • Pelargonium dipetalum

    Posted on by s2This geophytic (i.e. a plant that propagate by means of underground organs such as bulbs, tubers or corms) herb which only reaches around 35cm in height. Its leaves are in opposite pairs to eachother and deeply divided almost to the... Read more »