Nerine humilis, the mountain nerine

The mountain nerine common name appears apt for these well settled and vigorously flowering Nerine humilis plants on their rocky slope in the Little Karoo autumn. The stalked flowers are usually presented around 40 cm from the ground.

Given the specific name of humilis that suggests the plants are lowly or low-growing, these flowers are by no means the shortest nerine blooms of the genus. Pink and finger-like, the tepals all flare upwards from the flower base, while the very tips of the tepals tend to recurve (Euston-Brown and Kruger, 2023; Curtis-Scott, et al, 2020; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; iNaturalist).