Fynbos Corridor Collaboration

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Name Vegetation type(s) Features Flowers & type
Cape Smilax
Asparagus asparagoides
  • Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
  • Peninsula Shale Renosterveld
Bees Birds
Drought-resistant Good potplant
Easy to grow
Fragrant Medicinal Useful
Semi-shade Shade Sun
Soil: loam Soil: sandy
  • white
Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov
Scrambler Shrub
Silvery Bryum
Bryum argenteum
  • Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
Near water
Semi-shade Shade Sun
Soil: sandy
Moss
Mat Sedge
Cyperus textilis
  • Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
  • Elgin Shale Fynbos
Good potplant
Easy to grow
Useful
Near water
Shade Sun
Soil: clay Soil: loam Soil: sandy
Grass Perennial
Small Fortnight Lily
Dietes iridioides
  • Egoli Granite Grassland
  • Peninsula Shale Renosterveld
Drought-resistant Good garden plant
Easy to grow
Medicinal
Semi-shade Shade Sun
Soil: loam
Egoli Granite Grassland
  • white
Feb Mar Apr May Sep Oct Nov Dec
Bulb Perennial
Perennial Veldtgrass
Ehrharta calycina
  • Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
  • Elgin Shale Fynbos
  • Peninsula Shale Renosterveld
Easy to grow
Useful
Shade Sun
Soil: loam Soil: sandy
  • red
Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Annual Grass Perennial
Pink Ear
Falkia repens
  • Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
Easy to grow
Shade Sun
  • white
Sep Oct Nov Dec
Ground cover
Wild Peach
Kiggelaria africana
  • Egoli Granite Grassland
  • Peninsula Shale Renosterveld
  • Witwatersrand
Bees Birds Butterflies
Drought-resistant
Easy to grow Hedge
Useful
Semi-shade Shade Sun
Pioneer species
Soil: clay Soil: loam Soil: sandy
Egoli Granite Grassland Gauteng
  • cream
  • green
  • yellow
Sep Oct Nov Dec
Tree
Mountain Nerine
Nerine humilis
  • Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
Bees Butterflies
Drought-resistant Good potplant
Easy to grow
Attractive Useful
Semi-shade Shade
Soil: clay Soil: loam Soil: sandy
  • pink
  • white
Feb Mar Apr May
Bulb
Common Reed
Phragmites australis
  • Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
Easy to grow Hedge
Useful
Near water
Semi-shade Shade Sun
Soil: clay Soil: loam Soil: sandy
  • brown
  • purple
Grass
Two Tails—Three Fingers
Tridactyle bicaudata
  • Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
Fragrant
Semi-shade Shade Sun
  • brown
  • yellow
Feb Dec
Epiphyte Orchid

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