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Thysanotus juncifolius, the branching fringe lily, is a small native Australian geophyte with pink to mauve fringed flowers that grows in sandy, well-drained bush and heath. It is a wildflower rather than a common garden plant, and it suits gardeners who can mimic dry, sandy native conditions.
Thysanotus juncifolius, commonly known as branching fringe lily, is a species of flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family, and is endemic to Australia. It is a herb with a small horizontal rhizome and fibrous roots, up to three linear leaves, and flowering stems with up to five umbels of pink to mauve flowers with spreading perianth segments, fringed petals and six stamens.
Thysanotus juncifolius grows in a range of habitats from tall forest to open mallee and heath, in sandy gravel and shallow loam to deep sand and gravel in south-eastern Queensland, coastal regions near Sydney and inland to the Blue Mountains, the far east of Victoria, and Ninety Mile Desert, Fleurieu and Eyre Peninsulas and Kangaroo Island of South Australia.
Fringe Lilies · Thysanotus acerosifolius · Thysanotus anceps · Thysanotus arbuscula · Thysanotus arenarius · Thysanotus asper · Thysanotus banksii · Mallee Fringe Lily · Thysanotus brachiatus · Thysanotus brachyantherus · Thysanotus brevifolius · Chinese Fringe Lily
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thysanotus juncifolius 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.
