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Diuris behrii
Golden cowslips is a tuberous, grass-leaved terrestrial orchid from southern Australia, grown for its drooping yellow flowers in spring. It is best treated as a cool-season woodland or grassland orchid that needs a dormant summer and well-drained, lightly moist soil.
Diuris behrii, commonly known as golden cowslips, is a species of orchid which is endemic to southern continental Australia. It has between three and six grass-like leaves and a flowering stem with up to four drooping, yellow flowers with dark streaks on the labellum. The flowers appear between September and November in its native range.
The golden cowslip orchid grows in grassland and woodland mostly in western Victoria but is also found in south-eastern South Australia. Plants previously included in D. behrii in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory are now segregated as D. amabilis.
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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.
