Appearance
''Crocosmia'' × ''crocosmiiflora'' grows to 90 cm high with long sword-shaped leaves, shorter than the flowering stem and arising from the plant base, ribbed and up to 20mm wide. The base is a corm, a swollen underground stem lasting one year. The flowers are up to 5 cm long and coloured deep orange.
Naming
''Crocosmia'' × ''crocosmiiflora'' is deemed an invasive plant in New Zealand, common on roadsides in the northern parts of the West Coast of the South Island. The New Zealand Department of Conservation classes it as an environmental weed.The California Invasive Plants Council lists ''Crocosmia × crocosmiiflora'' as an invasive plant in California, with limited concern / distribution.
It is widely naturalised in England and Scotland especially along the western seaboard from Cornwall north all the way to Sutherland.
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