The lack of identified flowering genes in ornamental geophytic crops, such as <italic>Gladiolus,</italic> is critical to further genetic research. The <italic>UPSTREAM OF FLOWERING LOCUS C (UFC)</italic> gene is adjacent to <italic>FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC)</italic> which is a floral repressor; <italic>FLC EXPRESSOR (FLX)</italic> upregulates <italic>FRIGIDA</italic> which upregulates <italic>FLC</italic> expression. The purpose of this research was to determine whether two flowering genes exist in <italic>Gladiolus</italic> ×<italic>hybridus</italic> and <italic>G. dalenii</italic>: <italic>UFC</italic> and <italic>FLX</italic>. Seventeen early flowering and commercial cultivars possess the <italic>UFC</italic> gene with four exons in two allelic forms. The sequenced <italic>UFC</italic> gene, when translated into its amino acid sequence and set in pair-alignment to other species, has < 57% in amino acid identity to <italic>Musa acuminata</italic>. The <italic>FLX</italic> gene in gladiolus has 3/5 (60%) exons in common with <italic>Ananas comosus</italic>; pair-alignment of the exons has ~65% identity of <italic>FLX</italic> to <italic>A. comosus</italic>. The <italic>UFC</italic> protein consists of a conserved domain, <italic>DUF966</italic>, which is higher in identity (86%) and pair-alignment with <italic>Elaeis guineensis</italic>. The two newly-discovered genes in gladiolus, <italic>UFC</italic> and <italic>FLX</italic>, provide insight into the flowering mechanism, flowering pathway genes, and vernalization response.