Watsonia confusa flower spike

About 30 Watsonia confusa flowers grow annually in opposite arrays to spiralling in an unbranched spike. The smallish bracts subtending the flowers are completely dry by the time the flowers open. Only buds and young flowers ascend, the open flowers soon spread, then droop.

Blooming happens from before midspring until early autumn.  

The flowers usually exceed the tips of the longest leaves in height. The attenuated leaf-tip in picture is long, thin and spiky (Pooley, 1998; iNaturalist).