Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Print Fact Sheet

Arthropodium milleflorum

Common name

Pale vanilla-lily, Vanilla lily

Family

Asparagaceae

Where found

Variety of habitats including forest, woodland, grassy areas, rocky situations and moist gullies. Widespread.

Notes

Perennial herb to 1.2 m tall. Leaves basal, 3–60 cm long, 1–17 mm wide, more or less erect, usually glaucous. Flowers distinctly vanilla scented. Flowers with 6 'petals' each 5–10 mm long, white or pale blue to pink. Filaments of the stamens densely hairy, with white hairs, often purple near the anthers. Anthers purple. Flowers usually 2–9 per node. Flowering: chiefly November–February.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

Family Anthericaceae in NSW.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Arthropodium~milleflorum (accessed 2 April 2021)