Authors: Cav.  

Botanical Description

Clump to colony-forming with slowly creeping rhizomes. Leaves arrowhead shaped, l-4cm long, obtuse or retuse at the dp, the basal lobes extending as two appendages half as long as the main blade, usually folded dghdy over onto the top of the leaf. These folds are at right angles to the petiole, but in some northern forms there is no fold, the appendages being quite free, apart from a small attachment point at the junction of the leaf and petiole. (This northern form used to be known as C. alata). Flowers 3cm or more acoss, ivory to pallid yellow with five to eight tepals. From sea level in the Falklands and Tierra del Fuego northwards through the Andes to Lake Titicaca, at altitudes up to 4000m. Open saturated dwarf grassland, rill banks, snowmelt and even brackish habitats. A variable species from which C. andicola can no longer be maintained as a separate entity. Often shy flowering.