Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Calostemma purpureum

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Garland Lily

Family

Amaryllidaceae

Where found

Woodland, shrubland, along watercourses and on seasonally flooded clay flats, and in rocky sites. Western Slopes.

Notes

Perennial herb, shooting annually from a bulb, flower stalks to 0.6 m tall. Leaves basal, 10-60 cm long, 4-18 mm wide, flat. Flowers purple to reddish purple, golden to greenish yellow, sometimes pink, rarely white, often yellow or pink near the base, tubular lower down, funnel-shaped higher up, the tube 5–13 mm long; with 6 lobes each 9–21 mm long, in clusters of 8-30 flowers at the top of the flower stalk.

Calostemma luteum is included in Calostemma purpureum in NSW.

Rare Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Calostemma~purpureum 
(accessed 13 April 2021)