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§1 Plant

Moraea collina Thunb.

vernacular Cape tulip — species · Iridaceae


USDA
MOCO8
GBIF
2744625
Rank
species
Cape tulip (Moraea collina)
Platephotograph · dogtooth77CC BY-NC-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Iridaceae Juss.
Genus
Moraea
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 1 county across 1 state
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 1 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 1 county across 1 state.


§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/MOCO8 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2744625 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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