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Thysanotus speckii is a small tuberous perennial from the dry shrublands of Western Australia, grown mainly by native plant enthusiasts rather than as a common garden plant. It needs full sun, very well-drained soil and a dry summer rest.
Thysanotus speckii is a species of flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a perennial herb with a small rootstock, tuberous roots, a few linear leaves and umbels of four to six purple flowers with linear to narrowly lance-shaped sepals, oblong, fringed petals and six stamens of differing lengths.
This species of Thysanotus grows in shrubland with scattered mulga (Acacia aneura) on red sand, granite outcrops and red sandy loam between Exmouth and Geraldton, including some off-shore islands, and south-east towards Meekatharra and the Bullfinch area, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Coolgardie, Gascoyne, Geraldton Sandplains, Murchison and Yalgoo bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thysanotus speckii 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.
