Lachenalia reflexa is one of the earliest species to flower and has been used in hybridising with L. aloides, producing strong plants which hold their flowers in an intermediate position between the upright reflexa and the pendulous aloides types, and resembling plump goldfish.

L. reflexa is an easy species to naturalise, and will occaisionaly seed down into cracks in the concrete, from which it will flower happily. Each plant will produce from 1 to 5 florets depending on age and health. When reading descriptions of this species it does not appeal as much as some other species, but it is one of those plants, that once established, grows on you and brightens up the garden in its season.