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These pages will
feature some of the wildflowers we have photographed in Western Australia, and where possible, identified. If you
are able to help identify further flowers, or correct any I may have wrong, please contact us.
Information given for each species
will give botanical name, known common names, describe the flower, give time of year it flowered, and where it was photographed, and
the areas it occurs in. Names have been matched to Florabase which has also been used to show distribution.
Thysanotus multiflorus Fringed Lily, Many-flowered Fringe Lily (at left and below)
A three petalled purple lily with fringed
edges, and a darker purple centre stripe. Three short curved anthers. Long fringes. Multiple flowers on a tall stem.
Foliage strip-like and smooth and grows in clumps or tussocks.
Spring to early Summer
Bridgetown, South West Region, Western
Australia and found from Lancelin to Albany, through the South West and along the south coast to Esperance
Above showing smooth foliage and above right is a larger Thysanotus multiflorus tussock.
Thysanotus manglesianus, Climbing Fringed Lily, Fringed Lily
A small three petalled pale purple lily with prominent calyx giving the
appearance of six petals. Fringes are very short. Dark centre lines on petals and calyx. The flowers have six unequal
anthers. The outer three are straight with the inner three being shorter and curved. Stems branch directly from a main
stem, further distinguishing this species from the otherwise similar twiner Thysanotus patersonii.
Spring
Bridgetown, South West
Region, Western Australia although this species is not recorded for the Bridgetown area it does appear to be the most common twining
Thyanotus in the district. Mainly found in the Mid West, Perth, Wheatbelt, Great Southern and South West regions from Shark
Bay to Albany and extending inland, with scattered recordings through the Golfdfields and in the Pilbara.
Thysanotus patersonii, Climbing Fringed Lily, Paterson's Fringed Lily, Twining Fringed Lily, Djunga djunga, Djungala.
A small
three petalled pale purple lily with prominent calyx giving the appearance of six petals. Fringes are very short. Dark
centre lines on petals and calyx and six similar sized short purple anthers. Several flowers in twining stem. Stems dichotomously
branched, giving a zigzag appearance.
Spring
Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia and found from Exmouth to Esperance,
the Gascoyne, Mid West, South West, Great Southern and Goldfields regions, into the Gascoyne and scattered occurrences through the
Pilbara regions
Thysanotus sparteus, Leafless Fringed Lily
A late flowering Thysanotus with tall slender wiry stems and no visible foliage, and
several delicate and fine flowers which can be lilac or mauve, with six anthers; three long and three short. Flowers branching
at the end of these long stems of up to 1.5 metres. which are sometimes freestanding but mostly sprawl across other vegetation
December
January February
Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia, and occur around the coast from Kalbarri to Esperance, through the
Mid West, Wheatbelt, South West and Great Southern regions, and into the Goldfields
