Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Grassveld Chiron

Chironia krebsii

Family
Gentianaceae (Gentian family)
Grows as
Bulb
Native range
SW. Tanzania to S. Africa
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Chironia krebsii, the Kreb's chironia, is a rhizomatous geophyte belonging to the genus Chironia. The species is native to Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

In South Africa, the plant occurs in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape and the Free State.

Other Chironia plants

Small white chironia · Chironia angolensis · Sandveld Chiron · Christmas berry · Chironia baumiana · Sprawling Chiron · Chironia elgonensis · Chironia erythraeoides · Chironia fernandesiana · Chironia flexuosa · Chironia gratissima · Chironia jasminoides

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chironia krebsii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…