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Thysanotus tenellus, grassy fringe-lily, is a tufted perennial with tuberous roots and purple or white fringed flowers, native to south-western Western Australia and South Australia. It grows in moist swamps and sandy or loamy soils, so keep it moist and cool to match its natural habitat.
Thysanotus tenellus, commonly known as grassy fringe-lily, is a species of flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family, and is endemic to the south-west of Australia. It is a tufted perennial herb with a small rootstock, tuberous roots, about 5 to 27 linear, usually hairy, channnelled leaves and umbels of up to four purple, sometimes white flowers with lance-shaped sepals, elliptic, fringed petals and six stamens.
This species of Thysanotus grows in granite, loam, sandy clay or sand in swamps, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia and in South Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thysanotus tenellus 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.
