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Thysanotus sparteus
Leafless fringed lily is a native Western Australian perennial geophyte with a rhizome, grown mainly for its small purple fringed flowers rather than as a common garden plant. It needs free-draining sandy soil and a sunny, open spot, and is best left in its native habitat or grown in native plant gardens.
Thysanotus sparteus, commonly known as leafless fringed lily, is a species of flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a leafless, perennial herb with an irregularly shaped rhizome, fibrous roots and umbels of two to seven purple flowers with linear sepals, elliptic, fringed petals and six stamens.
This species of Thysanotus is found from near Mingenew to near Cape Leeuwin, along the coast to Albany and eastwards to Esperance and towards Israelite Bay and several inland locations. It grows in jarrah-marri (Eucalyptus marginata-Corymbia calophylla) forest and woodland, sometimes in sandplain vegetation, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren biogregions of south-western Western 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 sparteus 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.
