Chlorophytum geophilum
A small tuberous-rooted savanna herb of West and Central Africa with outlying records in East and south-central Africa. Its name refers to flowers held close to the ground. It grows in the hot rainy season and rests through a long dry season, which growers should copy.
Where it grows wild
Records come from Sudanian and Guinean savanna and open woodland. It most likely grows in seasonally moist, often shallow soils among grasses, where fire and drought kill the leaves back each year.
Recorded from about 220 to 1,230 m; West African sites are low, while Zambian sites sit on plateaus above 1,100 m.
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