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Looks like an iris, Neomarica Gracilis is what my quick google has me thinking is a match. Edit: Though Neomarica northiana also looks like it (so an iris - Neomarica something ).
Last edited by RRBC; 04-30-2014 at 07:00 PM..
Reason: Another image with the same Genus and a different species
I'm guessing because of the growth pattern and leaves. Try looking up the various kinds of Liriope. The most common kind is known as monkey grass, but there are many varieties.
echoing earlier comments, the flower color and arrangement seem to point rather strongly to a neomarica---the "walking iris" of brazil---possibly n. gracilis. it's related to the temperate iris group but is better adapted to warm wet summer/mild winter climates (not hardy to hard frosts). a pretty plant for the mildest areas outdoors and probably a container plant kept indoors for the winter in colder climates.
dietes is indeed very common in California----almost every parking lot "island" seems to have a clump or two, LOL. being an iris relative it has similar arranged flowers to neomaricia but the flowers are generally much smaller in size than the first plant pictured. FWIW, there are a large number of "southern hemisphere" iris family members with basically similar flower arrangement but differing in flower size and color patterns from south America (neomaricia, libertia, cypella), south Africa ( a huge number of plants including dietes, moraea, aristea), and also Australia (patersonia), and new Zealand (more libertia) that are in cultivation to a greater or lesser degree in milder areas.
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Thank you for the information. I think it is Neomarica Gracilis.
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