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Thysanotus tenuis is a small clumping perennial herb from south-west Western Australia, grown as a bulb-like geophyte with purple fringed flowers in spring. It is a native wildflower best suited to a sunny, free-draining spot in a Mediterranean-style climate.
Thysanotus tenuis is a species of flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a clumping perennial herb with a tuberous roots, three or four terete annual leaves, and panicles of purple flowers with elliptic, fringed petals, linear to narrowly lance-shaped sepals, six stamens and a straight to curved style.
This species of Thysanotus grows in clayey or sandy loam soils in depressions in low woodland near Wagin and Wickepin in the Avon Wheatbelt and Mallee bioregions 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 tenuis 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.
