Deciduous plant with beautiful yellow flowers. These often grow in dense colonies among rocks. Needs full sun to flower. Leaves are green with white dots. Not a true lily. The diminutive size, is set off by the beautiful yellow color of the flowers with purple blotchs at base of spathe. Works well planted in a water garden, along a border, or in a container outdoors or as a houseplant. More information on Zantedeschia .
Curated pairwise relationships between this plant and others in the library — who feeds
whom, who competes, who confuses the pests. Green reads as a good pairing, red as one to avoid.
No curated interactions recorded for this species yet.
Also noted by NC State
Related species the NC State Plant Toolbox flags for this plant — look-alikes to tell
apart, and plants that play a similar role in a planting. Ones we carry in the library are linked.
Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day)
Soil texture
High Organic Matter; Sand; Shallow Rocky
Soil pH
Acid (<6.0); Neutral (6.0-8.0)
Soil drainage
Good Drainage
Available space
12 inches-3 feet
Mature size
Height: 1 ft. 0 in. - 2 ft. 0 in. | Width: 1 ft. 0 in. - 3 ft. 0 in.
Growth rate
Medium
Maintenance
Low
Canopy layer
4 - Herbaceous (1-3 ft)
Form & Appearance
Habit / form
Dense; Erect; Mounding
Foliage
Deciduous
Leaf color
Green; Variegated
Leaf type
Simple
Leaf shape
Elliptical; Lanceolate; Oblong
Leaf margin
Entire
Leaf feel
Smooth
Leaf value
Showy
Leaf size
> 6 inches long, 3-6 inches wide
Hairs present
No
Leaf detail
Leaves deciduous, up to 30" long, usually shorter than the peduncles, petiolate, petioles up to 15" long, clasping at the base; blade yellowish grass-green, usually immaculate (seldom maculate) oblong-elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, hastate, obtuse to acute, abruptly apiculate, up to 17" long and 8" wide. Z. pentlandii has immaculate (or very rarely spotted) oblong-lanceolate leaves, slightly constricted above the short, hastate, rounded lobes; the apex is obtuse (or sometimes acute) with a subulate, seldom recurving tip.
Flower color
Gold/Yellow; Purple/Lavender
Flower value
Good Cut; Showy
Flower form
Spadix
Flower shape
Funnel
Flower size
3-6 inches
Flower detail
Diminutive size, beautiful yellow color with purple blotch at base of spathe.
Bloom time
Fall; Summer; Winter
Fruit color
Green
Fruit detail
Fruit green, few in number, with up to 20 seeds.
Stem color
Green
Wildlife & Ecology
Native status
Non-native
Origin
South Africa, Mpumalanga
Distribution
Mapoch region of Mpumalanga
Play value
Colorful
Landscape Use
Landscape location
Container; Houseplants; Pond; Small Space
Landscape theme
Cottage Garden; Cutting Garden; Rain Garden; Rock Garden; Water Garden