Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Bulbine glauca
Common name
Bulbine Lily, Rock Lily
Family
Asphodelaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, roadsides, and rocky areas. Mainly ACT, the mountains to the west, Kosciuszko National Park, and the Bega Valley. Occasional elsewhere.
Notes
Perennial herb to 1.1 m tall, sometimes with a short rhizome. Flower stalks glaucous. Leaves fleshy, basal, 10–45 cm long, 1–10 mm in diameter, cylindrical at the top, usually glaucous. Flowers yellow, with 6 'petals', each 9–17 mm long. Flowers in an elongated cluster 5-40 cm long of up to 75 flowers. Filaments of all six stamens are the same length, 5-8 mm long, the anthers curled above a hairy tuft. Flowering: Oct.–Dec.
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=Bulbine~glauca (accessed 6 January, 2021)
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