Watsonia confusa flowers

A Watsonia confusa flower has two unequal, dry, brown bracts overlapping and clasping its base at the stem. The bracts are from 2 cm to 3,5 cm long and from 1,4 cm to 1,8 cm wide.

The pink to purple tepals are about 3,2 cm long and 1,1 cm wide. The lower three tepals often have dark pink central lines. A corolla is about 2,5 cm in diameter.

Watsonia flowers are often hard to tell apart. Colour helps, but many of them also flower in different shades and shared shades. This species name, confusa, relates to the Latin verb, confundere meaning to pour together and the adjective confusus meaning confused or troubled, referring to the woes in mixing up of species, including this one (Pooley, 1998; iNaturalist).