Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Libertia pulchella
Common name
Pretty Grass-flag
Family
Iridaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, rocky sites, and moist gullies. Blue Mountains.
Notes
Perennial herb. Rhizomatous. More or less hairless. Leaves basal, 5–18 cm long, 2–7 mm wide, linear to strongly curved, flat, grass-like. Scape cylindrical, longer than the leaves. Flowers with 6 creamy white 'petals' each 5–10 mm long. Flowers in 3 or 4 clusters, each 3–6-flowered. Flowering: October–January. Seed case brown when ripe, round, deeply 3-furrowed, 3–5 mm in diameter.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Libertia~pulchella (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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