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Stylidium nominatum

Stylidium nominatum is a small annual trigger plant from the Northern Territory of Australia, growing 4 to 15 cm tall with white flowers. It is a wild species of seasonally dry tropical habitats and is rarely grown, so it is best kept in a shallow pot with sandy, free-draining soil and full sun during its growing season.

Family
Stylidiaceae (Stylidi family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water when the surface of the mix begins to dry during the growing season, and keep it on the dry side once flowering finishes.
Soil
Sandy, free-draining mix with added grit or perlite.
Temperature
18–32 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
N. Northern Territory
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Stylidium nominatum is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae). It is an annual plant that grows from 4 to 15 cm tall. The oblanceolate leaves, about 5-15 per plant, form basal rosettes around the stem and are 2.5–9 mm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide. About 4-11 leaves per plant are also scattered along the stem and are generally 2.3-4.7 mm long and 0.3-0.5 mm wide. Scapes are absent. Inflorescences are 2–6 cm long and produce white flowers that bloom from April to June in the Southern Hemisphere. S. nominatum is endemic to the northern area of Kakadu National Park and Melville Island in the Northern Territory. Its habitat is recorded as being sandy soils in Melaleuca viridiflora woodlands, bases of sandstone escarpments, and gravelly yellow soil in flat, treeless areas. S. nominatum is most closely related to S. capillare.

Other Stylidium plants

Grass Triggerplant · Stylidium inconspicuum · Stylidium javanicum · Stylidium laricifolium · Stylidium leeuwinense · Stylidium leptorrhizum · Stylidium lobuliflorum · Stylidium longicornu · Stylidium longissimum · Stylidium marradongense · Stylidium multiscapum · Stylidium muscicola

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Stylidium nominatum 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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