Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Romulea minutiflora

Flowering plants. Photographer Alison Milton, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Small-flowered Onion-grass

Family

Iridaceae

Where found

Weed of pastures, lawns and roadsides. Western Slopes. Rarely elsewhere. Doubtfully naturalised in the ACT.

Notes

Introduced perennial herb, arising annually from a swollen round underground stem (corm). Flower stalks 2–4, to 0.05 m long. Leaves several, basal, 6–20 cm long, 0.5–1.2 mm wide, flattened cylindrical. Flowers tubular, the tube dull yellow, 2–3 mm long, with 6 lobes, each 5–9 mm long, pale pink to lilac, often shaded blue near the base and tips, the outer 'petals' greenish outside. Flowers single. Flowers Aug.–Oct.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Romulea~minutiflora  (accessed 5 February, 2021)