Ixia fuscocitrina
Common name: Yellow Ixia
Ixia is Greek word, meaning an ancient name for a plant with a wide range of colours. Fuscocitrina is from the Latin words fuscus, meaning brown or dark, and citrinus, meaning lemon yellow.
Occurs around old settlements and road verges from Perth to Albany. However, it is spreading into adjacent bushland. Also occurs in south eastern Australia.
The plant grows to 50 centimetres tall. The flowers are yellow with dark centres and produced in August and September.
This species was previously known as Ixia maculata.
It is originally from South Africa.
Western Australian Plant Names and their Meanings, a Glossary. FA Sharr. Third edition 2019.
Western Weeds, A Guide to the Weeds of Western Australia. BMJ Hussey, GJ Keighery, J Dodd, SG Lloyd, RD Cousens. 1997.
Flora of the Perth Region. NG Marchant, JR Wheeler, BL Rye, EM Bennett, NS Lander, TD Macfarlane. 1987.
Atlas of Living Australia https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2909517
Florabase https://florabase.dbca.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/52106