Hardiness zones
Sunset 9, 12-24 as in the ground perennial; otherwise in colder zones dig and store during the winter
USDA 8-11 as perennial, otherwise dig and store

Landscape Use: Diminutive flower accent, container plant, gift pot plant

Form & Character: Upright, and slender, cheerful

Growth Habit: Herbaceous perennial producing tunicate corms, without branches to 1.5' in height

Foliage/Texture: Greenish, linear to lanceolate leaves, basally produced to 1' long, medium texture

Flowers & Fruits: Funnel form flowers with 3 stamens to 2" in diameter, filaments not united. Flower borne on spikes in loose clusters, having a yellow center around which is ringed a darker color (brown) around which is usually ringed with red, pink, orange or purple; fruit a 3-valved capsule, not ornamental.

Seasonal Color: Flowers bloom over a long period during the spring.

Temperature: Avoid high heat of western exposures.

Light: Full sun to partial shade.

Soil: Tolerant

Watering: Regular water required

Pruning: Remove spent flowers

Propagation: Division of corms

Disease and pests: None

Additional comments: Nice when left to naturalize in a flower border or grouped in mass as an accent. Not for desert gardens.