Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Bulbine semibarbata
Common name
Wild onion, Leek lily, Native leek
Family
Asphodelaceae
Where found
Rocky outcrops and margins of saline lakes. Mainly Western Slopes, and the coast and ranges south of Narooma. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Annual or sometimes biennial herb to 0.5 m tall. Leaves somewhat fleshy, clustered at the base of the plant, 1.5-27 cm long, to 5 mm in diameter, narrower towards the tips, hairless, flattish in cross section, channeled, or almost cylindrical. Flowers yellow, with 6 'petals', each 4-7 mm long, in clusters of up to 35 flowers up the stem. Filaments of three of the stamens are much shorter than the filaments of the other three. Flowers Winter to Summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Bulbine~semibarbata (accessed 6 January, 2021)
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