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Patersonia rudis, known as hairy flag, is a tufted rhizomatous perennial from south-west Western Australia with violet flowers in spring. It is a native bushland plant grown in Australian native gardens, and its key requirement is a free-draining, sunny to part-shaded spot.
Patersonia rudis, commonly known as hairy flag, is a species of plant in the iris family Iridaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a tufted, rhizome-forming perennial herb with linear to sword-shaped leaves and violet tepals.
Subspecies rudis grows in woodland and forest on the Darling Range between New Norcia and Dwellingup in the Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia but subspecies velutina grows in more arid woodland and shrubland further east near Southern Cross and Coolgardie in the Avon Wheatbelt and Coolgardie bioregions.
Patersonia argyrea · Patersonia babianoides · Patersonia borneensis · Patersonia drummondii · Short Purple Flag · Leafy Purple Flag · Patersonia graminea · Patersonia inaequalis · Rush Leaved Patersonia · Woolly Patersonia · Patersonia limbata · Patersonia macrantha
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Patersonia rudis 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.
