Plants tufted, bulbous, to c.70 cm high. Roots fibrous. Leaves linear, flat or concave, to c. 80 cm long, 3 cm wide, withering before flowering time. Inflorescence erect, initially corymbose, typically elongated at maturity. Flowers 8–25; bracts lanceolate; lower flowering pedicels to 6 cm long, not much longer than the upper, fruiting pedicels erect, to 8 cm long; perianth segments 20–30 mm, not widely spreading, white; stamens c. one-third as long as perianth segments; ovary dark purplish. Capsule cylindric. Flowers spring.
Wim, VVP, GipP, WaP. Also naturalised in WA, SA, NSW. Native to the Mediterranean region and occasionally cultivated. Known in Victoria from an 1894 collection at MEL labelled simply 'Wimmera', and a 1991 specimen from a cereal crop near Kaniva.
Source:
Conran, J.G. (1994). Liliaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 637–686. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
