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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.

To see more Western Australian Wildflowers, see WA Now and Then Wildflower Gallery

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

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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 very 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. Fringes are long and straggly.

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

See more of these lovely Thysanotus species on the next page.