Flowers to 3cm long, most of this a long, often upturned orange-red spur, the small crimson sepals and yellow, maroon-edged petals forming a colourful little lantern, winter to spring.

Flowers 6-8cm across and rather longer, the large falls pointing down and the equally large standards erect, ground colour cream to ivory with a prominent network of dark maroon veins, …

Flowers completely symmetrical, almost crocus-shaped, the petal lobes 2-3.5cm long, bright yellow, maroon-purple in the throat and sometimes lined with the same colour without, spring.

Southeastern U.S.A., on moist wooded slopes and bluffs. The plant under this name in British gardens always has maroon mottled leaves. Plain-leaved variants are known and may be …

O. patagonicus has been rumoured as having maroon-purple flowers but almost certainly from the evidence of herbarium specimens, the flowers often loosing all trace of yellow when dried.

Botanical Description Rhizomatous white-downy perennial. Similar to A. aconcaguensis, but with seventeen to twenty-five leaflets. The maroon markings on the floral standard are so heavy …

Flowers one to five, erect, to 10cm across, narrowly cup-shaped with a 'see-through' base, and recurved tepal tips, bright orange-scarlet and orange with basal maroon spots, summer.

Dodecatheon frigidum Authors: Cham. Botanical Description Stems 10-25cm tall. Leaves ovate to elliptic, 5-15cm long, crenate-dentate, glandular-pubescent. Flowers five-petalled. lavender to …

A further noteworthy feature of the open-flowered species is a visible protruding loasa-like crown of staminode nectaries common to all species, often contrasting the main petal shade with …

Flowers to 3cm long, brownish-purple to maroon in bud opening rich yellow, the tepals arching outwards. Central Asia, especially the Tien Shan, in alpine meadows.