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Libertia chilensis
Also called Satin Flower
Libertia chilensis is an evergreen, clump-forming rhizomatous perennial from Chile and Argentina, grown for its grass-like evergreen foliage and white flowers. It is undemanding once established, and it tolerates a range of sites if drainage is good.
Libertia chilensis, synonym Libertia formosa, called the New Zealand satin flower, snowy mermaid, or Chilean-iris, is a species of flowering plant in the iris family, Iridaceae, native to the Juan Fernández Islands, central and southern Chile, and southern Argentina. It can also be found growing wild in the San Francisco Bay Area and San Bernardino County in California, where it is an introduced species. A rhizomatous evergreen perennial, it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
The Calle-Calle River in Los Ríos Region owes its name to the Mapuche word for the plant.
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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.
