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Thysanotus teretifolius is a tufted perennial herb from the sandplains of south-west Western Australia, grown mainly as a native garden or bush-garden plant. It needs full sun, well-drained sandy soil and dry summers, as in its native mallee habitat.
Thysanotus teretifolius is a species of flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a tufted perennial herb with a small rootstock, fibrous roots, up to ten linear, perennial linear leaves and umbels of ten to fifteen purple flowers with narrowly lance-shaped sepals, elliptic fringed petals and three stamens with equal anthers.
This species of Thysanotus grows in sandplain vegetation in mallee eucalypts, usually in deep sandy soils, from near Northampton to near Mount Lesueur and south-east to Wongan Hills, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thysanotus teretifolius 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.
