Flora of New Zealand Series

N. hispanicus × poeticus

Scape 30-40 cm high, distinctly 2-edged. Leaves glaucous, ± channelled. Flower solitary, usually ascending, not fragrant; pedicel very short; tube subcylindric, ± dilated at throat; lobes slightly > tube, pale or sulphur-yellow, spreading; corona c. ½ length of lobes, funnel-shaped, bright yellow, margin very shortly crenate.

N., S. Scattered. Persistent garden outcast in grass at roadsides or on margins of bush remnants.

(Artificial hybrid; naturalised in many countries)

First record: Healy 1958: 542.

First collection: Wallaceville, in grass, roadside, A. J. Healy 53/854, 2.9.1953 ().

FL. 9-10.