Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Stypandra glauca
Common name
Nodding blue lily
Family
Hemerocallidaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, heath, and rocky outcrops. Widespread.
Notes
Tufted perennial herb, shrub-like in later seasons, usually to about 1.5 m high. Leaves in two opposite rows, alternating up the stems and opposite each other, 5–20 cm long, 4–15 mm wide, often bluish, bases sheathing the stem. Flowers deep blue to white, occasionally pink, with 6 'petals' 8–16 mm long. Very short yellow fuzzy hairs on the stamen filaments. Flowers on nodding stalks, in open clusters. Flowering: winter-spring.
Family Phormiaceae in PlantNET. Family Asphodelaceae in VICFLORA.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Stypandra~glauca (accessed 27 April 2021)
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