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Lechenaultia filiformis is a grass-like, ascending herb from northern Australia and New Guinea, growing up to about 40 cm with narrow fleshy leaves and tube-shaped purple, blue or cream flowers. It is a wild species of spinifex grassland and woodland, not a common garden or houseplant, so the key to growing it is mimicking its open, sunny, well-drained native habitat.
Lechenaultia filiformis is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is native to northern Australia and New Guinea. It is a grasslike, ascending herb with scattered, narrow, fleshy leaves and pale purple-blue to creamy-white, tube-shaped flowers.
This lechenaultia grows in spinifex grassland or in woodland from the Kimberley region of northern Western Australia through the north of the Northern Territory to the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland and the coast of New Guinea.
Lechenaultia acutiloba · Lechenaultia aphylla · Blue Leschenaultia · Lechenaultia brevifolia · Lechenaultia chlorantha · Lechenaultia divaricata · Lechenaultia expansa · Lechenaultia floribunda · Red Leschenaultia · Lechenaultia galactites · Lechenaultia heteromera · Lechenaultia hirsuta
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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.
