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Lomandra maritima

Lomandra maritima is a perennial, tufted, grass-like plant from coastal Western Australia, grown mainly as a hardy ornamental in dry, sunny gardens. It tolerates sandy soils and salt spray once established.

Family
Asparagaceae (Asparagus family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then reduce to occasional deep watering once established.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or loamy soil, tolerant of poor and saline soils.
Temperature
10–35 °C; tolerates light frost but protect from hard freezes.
How easy
Easy
Native range
W. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Lomandra maritima is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae.

Other Lomandra plants

Tropical matrush · Small Matrush · Lomandra brevis · Pale Mat Rush · Clumped Matrush · Lomandra cylindrica · Lomandra drummondii · Scented Mat Rush · Lomandra elongata · Wattle Mat Rush · Lomandra fluviatilis · Pale Mat Rush

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lomandra maritima by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

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.

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