Blou Afrikaner
From 30-70 cm, with base of stem purple and mottled white.
Leaves are narrow with thickened midrib.
Two-lipped flowers, variable but usually blue or yellow, occasionally pink, marked with yellow and blue on lower tepals, with a short tube 6-10 mm long.
There can be up to nine flowers per stem, but usually less.
Flowers from June to October.
Widespread. Occurs on sandstone and limestone flats and slopes from Namaqualand to the southern Cape.
Carinatus means "keeled".
Flowering profusely along the road in August. Also many on road to the lower Tadpole Pools.
