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Haemodorum brevicaule is a perennial herb from 0.025 to 0.3 m tall, in the bloodroot family, the Haemodoraceae, native to northern Australia. It has deep-red to purplish-black flowers which are seen from September to December, and it grows on red clay and basalt.
It is found in Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland in the IBRA regions of the Northern Kimberley, Victoria Bonaparte, Arnhem Coast, Darwin Coastal, Northern Kimberley, Pine Creek, Central Arnhem, Tiwi Cobourg, Arnhem Plateau, Gulf Coastal, Daly Basin, the Cape York Peninsula region in open eucalypt forest in dry sandy soils, and also in places that are seasonally flooded.
Queensland Blood Lily · Haemodorum brevisepalum · Scarlet Bloodroot · Rush Leaf Bloodroot · Haemodorum discolor · Moorland Bloodroot · Haemodorum ensifolium · Haemodorum gracile · Haemodorum laxum · Strap Leaf Bloodroot · Haemodorum simplex · Bloodroot
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Haemodorum brevicaule 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.
