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

Common Lionface

Nemesia floribunda

Common Lionface
Photo: Quentin Groom, CC0
Family
Scrophulariaceae (Scrophulari family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
S. Africa
Climate
subtropical

About

Nemesia floribunda is a species of flowering plant in the family Scrophulariaceae. It is called by the common names Cape Jewels and Fleshy Nemesia and is an erect annual dicotyledon herb that is native to South Africa, but has naturalised elsewhere. It is commonly cultivated by home gardeners.

Where it grows

Nemesia floribunda is typically found in subtropical environments, specifically nearby dunes with lupin and elder shrubs. It is sometimes found in and around scrub, forest margins, on roadsides, and in the open forest and its frequented by bees.

Other Nemesia plants

Nemesia · Longmane Lionface · Tooth Lionface · Nemesia glaucescens · Nemesia grandiflora · Nemesia karasbergensis · Nemesia linearis · Capejewels · Nemesia versicolor · Nemesia violiflora · Cape Lionfaces

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nemesia floribunda 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…