Chasmanthe floribunda (Salisb.) N.E.Br.
A leafy perennial. Leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, alternate, mainly about the base; from 50 to 90 cm long and from 2.5 to 3.5 cm wide. Flowering stem erect, between 80 to 100 cm tall, purplish in the upper parts. Flowers reddish-orange, in a spike; alternate; with two purplish bracts, the lower one about 1 cm long, the upper one slightly shorter. Corolla 7 to 8 cm long, 5-lobed. The upper lobe between 3 and 3.5 cm long, spathulate, eventually surrounding the anthers. Two side lobes spathulate, about 2 cm long; the other three lobes shorter, ovate-lanceolate, about 11 mm long, alternating with the other longer lobes. Anthers purple, 6 mm long; stigma trifid.
Local: Common and widespread around Gibraltar. It has been introduced as a garden plant and becoming naturalised in various places, even on the firebreaks and roadsides of the Upper Rock.
Global: A native of South Africa.
Flowers from (February) March to April.
A serious invasive.