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Bulbinella modesta is a slender perennial herb from the damp lowlands of New Zealand's West Coast, reaching about 300 mm, with yellow star-like flowers. It is a native wildflower rather than a common garden plant, and it needs moist, cool conditions.
Bulbinella modesta is a species of flowering plant in the family Asphodelaceae. It is endemic to the South Island of New Zealand, only found in the West Coast Region in damp lowland areas. It is a slender plant reaching 300 mm in height. B. modesta was first described in 1964 by the New Zealand botanist Lucy Moore. It gets its specific epithet, modesta, in reference to "the modest dimensions of the plant" compared to other species it had previously been placed in.
Bulbinella modesta is endemic to New Zealand. It is only found in the West Coast Region of the South Island, ranging from Westport in the Buller District to as far south as about Ōkārito. B. modesta's 2023 assessment in the New Zealand Threat Classification System was "At Risk — Naturally Uncommon".
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bulbinella modesta by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
