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Blue Tinsel Lily

Calectasia grandiflora

Also called Large Flowered Tinsel Lily

Blue Tinsel Lily
Photo: Geoffrey Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Dasypogonaceae (Dasypogon family)
Grows as
Perennial
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Calectasia grandiflora, commonly known as the blue tinsel lily, is a plant in the family Dasypogonaceae growing as a perennial herb endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It flowers in spring.

Where it grows

Blue tinsel lily grows on sand, sandy clay, gravel, laterite and granite in swampy areas and on rock outcrops, flats, slopes and ridges. It is endemic to the south-western corner of Western Australia, occurring in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren biogeographic regions.

Other Calectasia plants

Calectasia browneana · Blue tinsel lily · Elegant Tinsel Lily · Calectasia gracilis · Calectasia hispida · Blue Tinsel Lily · Calectasia keigheryi · Blue Tinsel Lily · Blue tinsel lily · Calectasia palustris · Calectasia pignattiana · Tinsel Lilies

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calectasia grandiflora by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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