Agapanthus inapertus

Agapanthus inapertus, commonly called the drooping agapanthus, is a deciduous perennial reaching heights from 40 cm to 1,8 m.

Its flowers are usually blue, occasionally white or violet. The flowers are tubular and pendulous, growing in dense umbel-shaped clusters on peduncles of well over 1 m.

The five subspecies of the drooping agapanthus all occur in Mpumalanga and Limpopo. Subsp. intermedius also occurs in KwaZulu-Natal, while subsp. inapertus may reach the northerly part of that province as well. 

The habitat is damp, montane grassland slopes or river banks. The habitat populations of all five the subspecies are considered of least concern early in the twenty first century.

Some of the subspecies are among the well-known garden plants of this genus (Manning 2009; Pooley, 1998; iNaturalist; http://redlist.sanbi.org).