Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Asphodelus fistulosus
Common name
Onion Weed, Asphodel, Wild Onion
Family
Asphodelaceae
Where found
Woodland, shrubland, grasslands, roadsides, disturbed sites, and coastal environs. Mainly Sydney area south to Kiama. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced annual, biennial, or perennial herb to 0.8 m tall. Leaves slightly fleshy. Flower stalks hairless, hollow. Leaves clustered at the base of the plant, 3-55 cm long, 1.5-8 mm wide, cylindrical and hollow, plano-convex, or flattened in cross section, surfaces hairless, sometimes somewhat glaucous, rough with minute projections along the margins (when present). Flowers white to pale pink, with 6 white to pale pink 'petals' with a reddish-brown central streak, each 5–12 mm long. Flowers in branched 5–30-flowered clusters. Flowering: chiefly winter–spring.
General Biosecurity Duty all NSW. Noxious weed Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Asphodelus~fistulosus (accessed 4 January, 2021)
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