The genus Ixia consists of a number of cormous plants native to South Africa from the Iridaceae family and Ixioideae subfamily. Some of them are known as the corn lily. Some distinctive traits include: sword-like leaves, and long wiry stems with star-shaped flowers. It usually prefers well-drained soil. They have a specific but not very intense fragrance of vegetables. That is why it is often visited by many insects such as bees.

Ixia stricta, commonly known as Summer Kalossie and synonymously known as Agretta stricta, Tritonia scillaris var. stricta and Tritonixia stricta, is a near threatened range-restricted South African endemic species found in the Western Cape from Houw Hoek to Bredasdorp growing amongst fynbos on sandstone and loamy clay soils on lower slopes. From late spring to summer it produces striking pink/purple flowers.