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Gladiolus italicus is a weed of cultivation, not known certainly as a truly wild plant. Occasionally, small-flowered plants with aborted anthers occur in some populations, but such gynodioecious individuals have not been recorded in North America.
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A number of Gladioli are popular as garden ornamentals.
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Description
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Plants 50–100 cm. Corms tunicate, ca. 20 mm diam.; tunic fibrous. Stems usually simple. Leaves 3–5, ± reaching base of spike; blade plane, lanceolate, sometimes narrowly so, 8–22 mm wide. Spikes 6–16-flowered; spathes unequal, outer 30–40(–50) mm, inner 1/2–2/3 outer. Flowers unscented, weakly distichous; perianth tube obliquely funnel-shaped, 10–12 mm; tepals pink to light purple with narrow median white streak on outer 3 tepals, unequal, dorsal tepal 45–50 × ca. 16 mm, inner lateral tepals ca. 30 × 8 mm, outer 3 tepals connate for ca. 5 mm, outer lateral tepals ca. 25 mm, outer median tepal ca. 20 mm; filaments ca. 12 mm; anthers ca. 15 mm; style branching opposite level of anther apices; branches ca. 2.5 mm. Capsules globose, 10-12 mm. Seeds globose or lightly angled, 2–3 mm diam.
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Description
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R.R. Stewart (l.c. 65) reports it from "Panjgur and Khudabudan n. of Panjgur, both at 3100 m.'
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Distribution
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introduced; Calif.; probably native to Near East.
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Distribution
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Distribution: Canary Isles, N.W. Africa, S. Europe to Afghanistan.
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Flower/Fruit
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Fl. Per.: early summer.
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Flowering/Fruiting
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Flowering mostly Apr--May.
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Habitat
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Roadsides, crop fields; 500m.
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Synonym
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Gladiolus segetum Ker Gawler
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Synonym
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Gladiolus segetum Kar Gawl. in Bot. Mag. 18: t. 719. 1803; R.R. Stewart, Ann. Cat. Vasc. Pl. W. Pak. Kashm. 65. 1972; Wendelbo & B. Mathew in Rech. f., Fl. Iran. 112: 70. 1975.
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Gladiolus italicus
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Gladiolus italicus is a species of gladiolus known by the common names Italian gladiolus, field gladiolus, and common sword-lily. It is native to much of Eurasia and North Africa,[1] but it is well known on other continents where it is a common weed, particularly of cultivated fields and waste places.[2] This perennial flower grows an erect stem approaching a meter in maximum height with a few long leaves around its base. Toward the top half of the generally unbranching stem is a spike inflorescence on which flowers appear at intervals. Each plant has up to 15 or 16 flowers. The flower is bright pink to magenta and several centimeters long with its stamens and style protruding from the throat. The fruit is a capsule about a centimeter long containing many seeds.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
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Gladiolus italicus corms of different ages and sizes
References
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^ "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". wcsp.science.kew.org.
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^ "Gladiolus italicus in Flora of North America @ efloras.org". www.efloras.org.
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^ Meikle, R.D. (1985). Flora of Cyprus 2: 833-1970. The Bentham-Moxon Trust Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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^ Boulos, L. (1995). Flora of Egypt: i-xii, 1-287. Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo.
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^ Danin, A. (2004). Distribution Atlas of Plants in the Flora Palaestina Area: 404-410. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
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^ Takhtajan, A.L. (ed.) (2006). Conspectus Florae Caucasi 2: 1-466. Editio Universitatis Petropolitanae.
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^ Mikheev, A. (2006). Synopsis generis Gladiolus L. (Iridaceae) specierum in flora caucasi. Novosti Sistematiki Vysshikh Rastenii 38: 120-125.
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^ Zervous, S., Raus, T. & Yannitsaros, A. (2009). Additions to the flora of the island of Kalimnos (SE Aegean, Greece). Willdenowia 39: 165-177.
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Gladiolus italicus: Brief Summary
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Gladiolus italicus is a species of gladiolus known by the common names Italian gladiolus, field gladiolus, and common sword-lily. It is native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, but it is well known on other continents where it is a common weed, particularly of cultivated fields and waste places. This perennial flower grows an erect stem approaching a meter in maximum height with a few long leaves around its base. Toward the top half of the generally unbranching stem is a spike inflorescence on which flowers appear at intervals. Each plant has up to 15 or 16 flowers. The flower is bright pink to magenta and several centimeters long with its stamens and style protruding from the throat. The fruit is a capsule about a centimeter long containing many seeds.
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