Moraea papilionacea aka Moraea Papilionacea

Moraea papilionacea is part of the iris family. The name of that family is Iridaceae. Its native range lies in the western southwest and southwest Cape Province. Kew places the plant in a subtropical climate. The RHS says it is not native to Britain. It says the same for Ireland. Chicago Botanic Garden gives peacock iris as its common name. That is the common name in the garden's record.

Kew calls this plant a tuberous geophyte. This term means it has a storage organ below ground. The organ forms part of the plant's growth. Chicago Botanic Garden groups the plant with bulbs. It uses this group in its plant finder. Neither Kew nor the garden gives its full-grown height. Neither gives its spread, or how wide it grows. The supplied records for this species do not describe its leaves. They give no account of its stems, either.

Chicago Botanic Garden lists two colors for the flowers. Those colors are salmon and yellow. The garden's bloom calendar runs from January through April. These dates come from that garden's own record. They do not set a bloom schedule for all climates. The supplied records give no details about the fruit. They give no details about the seeds, either. Nor do they name the plant's pollinators. In other words, they do not say what carries its pollen.

The evidence gives little help with how to grow this species. It does not state how much light the plant needs. It does not give its soil needs or watering needs. These gaps apply to the species in the supplied records. Chicago lists its hardiness as zone 3–3. The record gives no further context for that zone range. It does not explain the listing beyond those numbers.

The records give no account of pests for this species. They also give no account of its diseases. The evidence does not say whether any part is edible. Nor does it establish whether any part is toxic. These are gaps in the records, not findings of safety. The supplied evidence thus leaves both food use and toxicity unsettled.