Stypandra glauca, commonly known as the nodding blue lily, is a flowering plant in the family Asphodelaceae. It is a rhizomatous perennial plant with blue lily-like flowers with yellow stamens. It is widespread across southern areas of Australia.
Description
Stypandra glauca is a perennial herb with flowering branches to high and up to wide at the base, becoming shrub-like and about high when not flowering. The leaves are stiff, pale green to bluish, narrowly lance-shaped, stem-clasping in an alternate, opposite arrangement, and are up to 200 millimetres long. The drooping, blue flowers are borne in clusters at the end of stems, about long, about across, each petal about long, prominent yellow anthers, pedicel thread-like and curved. Flowering occurs from July to November and the fruit is oblong to oval-shaped capsule, long.
Taxonomy and naming
Stypandra glauca was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown and the description was published in Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae. The specific epithet (glauca) means "sea green" in reference to the foliage.
Distribution and habitat
Nodding blue lily is a widespread species growing on a variety of soils including sand, granite, shale, limestone and clay sometimes in woodland or mostly in dry forest.
Ingestion of flowering plants has been found to cause blindness in goats.
Gallery
See also
List of plants known as lily
References
External links
The Australasian Virtual Herbarium (AVH) – Occurrence data for Stypandra glauca
Asparagales of Australia
Angiosperms of Western Australia
Flora of South Australia
Flora of Queensland
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of the Australian Capital Territory
Flora of Victoria (state) Garden plants Plants described in 1810 Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773) glauca