Gladiolus dalenii 'Hookeri'

The commonest cultivar; 1-2 m tall, flowers bright red with large yellow patches on lower 3 lobes. It is a pentaploid, multiplying by seed and stolons; autumn. Recorded as a garden escape in nsw.

kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Lilianae
order      Asparagales
family       Iridaceae
genus        Gladiolus L.
species         Gladiolus dalenii Van Geel