The plants of the Cape and Succulent Karoo Floras are adapted to dry summers. In the rest of southern Africa, most of the rain falls in the summer months. The plants found here belong to different vegetation types---Nama Karoo, Grassland, Savanna and Desert---and grow in an extraordinary diversity of habitats.

A Painted Reed Frog, Hyperolius marmoratus, on Crinum campanulatum. Eastern Cape, South Africa

Haemanthus humilis near Dullstroom, Mpumalanga, South Africa

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Moraea spathulata and the Northern KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg, South Africa

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Watsonia lepida in the Golden Gate National Park, Free State, South Africa

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The spiral aloe, Aloe polyphylla, near Semonkong, Lesotho

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Dierama cooperi in the Golden Gate National Park, Free State, South Africa