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Thysanotus glaucus is a tufted, bluish-glaucous perennial herb from south-west Western Australia, grown mainly as a native garden or bulbous wildflower plant rather than a common houseplant. It thrives in sandy, free-draining soil in full sun.
Thysanotus glaucus is a species of flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a tufted, glaucous, perennial herb, with about 20 to 30 terete leaves, umbels of up to 10 purple flowers, linear sepals, elliptic, fringed petals, three stamens and a curved style.
This species of Thysanotus grows in low woodland, in sand or sandy gravel, from near Jurien Bay to south of Busselton in the Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thysanotus glaucus 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.
