Pooley, E. 1998. A field guide to wild flowers Kwazulu-Natal and the eastern region. Natal Flora Publications Trust, Durban.
Tulbaghia natalensis Baker
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Common names: sweet wild garlic, pink wild garlic (Eng.); soetwildeknoffel (Afr.); iswele lezinyoka (isiZulu)
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Euphorbia schinzii Pax
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Common names: rock-milkbush, northern noors, Schinz’s spurge (Eng.); klipmelkbossie (Afr.)
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Cycnium racemosum Benth.
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Common names: large pink ink plant, large mountain ink flower, large pink mushroom flower (Eng.); berginkplant (Afr.); injanga (isiXhosa); uhlabahlangane (isiZulu)
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Hygrophila auriculata (Schumach.) Heine
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Common names: marsh barbel (Eng.); kokilasha, gokulakanta, vayalchulli, neermulli (India); neeramulli (Sri Lanka); kulekhara (Bangladesh)
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Thunbergia atriplicifolia E.Mey. ex Nees
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Common names: Natal primrose (Eng.) isiphondo esincane (isiZulu)
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Scabiosa L.
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Common names: scabious, scabiosa, pincushion
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Scabiosa africana L.
Cape scabious, pincushion (Eng.). koringblom (Afr.)
Herbaceous perennial, flowering stems erect, leafy at the base, ±1 m high. Leaves radical, simple, shortly connate, oblanceolate, 40–90(–150)× (35–55) mm, soft textured, pubescent, irregularly toothed; upper cauline leaves reduced, undivided or lyrate to pinnatisect, with three or more lobes per side, terminal lobe lanceolate. Capitula up to 50 mm wide, flowers lavender blue, pale mauve, purple.
Flowering time: winter, spring and early summer (July to November).
Occurs on sheltered sandstone slopes of the Cape Peninsula in the Western Cape, growing in well-drained loam or sandy or rocky soils.

Scabiosa columbaria L.
perennial scabiosa, wild scabious (Eng.); bitterbos, bitterwortel (Afr.), tlhako-ea-pitsi, selomi, mamokhale, moholungoane (South Sotho); isilawu esikhulu, iyeza lamehlo, makgha (isiXhosa); ibheka (isiZulu)
Herbaceous perennial, flowering stems erect, leafy at the base, 0.15–1.2 m high. Leaves radical, simple, petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, 50–170 × 20–45 mm, glabrous or pubescent, entire or deeply lobed; upper cauline leaves reduced, entire, pinnate or pinnatipartite. Capitula up to 35 mm wide, flowers white, pink.
Flowering time: spring and summer (August to February).
Occurring on open grasslands and mountain slope of Europe, Asia, eastern and southern Africa, in well-drained loam or sandy or rocky soils.

Scabiosa incisa Mill.
coast scabious (Eng.), koringblommetjie (Afr.), isilawu esikhulu, iyeza lamehlo (isiXhosa)
Herbaceous perennial, flowering stems erect, leafy at the base, 0.43 m high. Leaves radical, lyrate-pinnatisect to bipinnatisect, petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, 50–70 × 10–15 mm, pubescent, deeply lobed; upper cauline leaves reduced, otherwise similar. Capitula up to 30 mm wide, flowers white or pink.
Flowering time: spring and early summer (September to November).
Occurring along the coastal sands, from Bokbaai to Makhanda (Grahamstown), frequent in limestone.
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Disperis woodii Bolus
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Common names: horned kappie, Wood’s disperis (Eng.); horingmoederkappie (Afr.)
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Grona setigera (E.Mey.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi (= Desmodium setigerum (E.Mey.) Benth. ex Harv.)
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Common names: bristly tick-clover (Eng.); pomo, pomσ (Mende, Sierra Leone)
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Phaulopsis imbricata (Forssk.) Sweet
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Common names: sticky acanth (Eng.); umhlonyane (isiZulu); papleaf (The Gambia), salt of the cow (Senegal)
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Cyrtanthus breviflorus Harv.
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Common names: yellow fire lily, wild crocus (Eng.); geelvuurlelie, wildekrokus (Afr.); umpimpilizi (SiSwati); injobo, uvelabahleke (isiZulu)
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