Hermannia cristata flower

The nodding, bell-shaped flowers of Hermannia cristata grow in elongated racemes. Flower colour is orange or red in several shades. The flower diameter is from 8 mm to 10 mm.

Flowering starts before midspring and lasts until after midsummer, sometimes over a longer season but it increases strongly after grass fires.

The fruit, initially green, is five-winged with thread-like fringes along the wing ridges. The specific name, cristata, is a Latin word meaning crested, referring to these fruit fringes (Manning, 2009; Pooley, 1998; Germishuizen and Fabian, 1982; iNaturalist).