Blue Grass-lily: Buds

Class:

Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)

Order:

Asparagus (Asparagales)

Family:

Hemerocallis (Hemerocallidaceae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Blue Grass-lily (Caesia calliantha)

This Photo:

Buds

Thank you Alan Dandie & Karen Weaving for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA, Adelaide Hills, Coastal Areas and possibly elsewhere
While it looks like the flowers have 6 petals, they are 3 petals and 3 sepals.

This species is classed as

VU (Vulnerable)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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