Common name: Onion Grass
Romulea rosea (L.) Eckl. APNI* Description: Small herb; corm globose; aerial stem absent.
Leaves several, basal, 8–40 cm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, compressed, grooved, tough.
Scapes 2–5, 3–12 cm long; outer bract narrow-triangular, 10–15 mm long, herbaceous; inner bract slightly shorter, herbaceous with wide scarious margins, often finely brown-striate. Perianth tube 2–4 mm long, yellow; lobes elliptic, acute, 10–18 mm long, 3–4 mm wide, pale to bright pink, rarely white; outer tepals dark-striped or greenish outside. Style 7–9 mm long; stigmas exceeded by anthers.
Capsule cylindrical, c. 1 cm long, on decurved scapes that straighten at maturity.
Flowering: August–November
Distribution and occurrence: A common weed of pastures, lawns and roadsides; south from Tamworth district. Native of S Afr.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *SC, *CT, *ST, *NWS, *CWS, *SWS, *SWP, *LHI
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *Tas. *S.A. *W.A.
Text by T. A. James & E. A. Brown
Taxon concept:
| N.S.W. occurrences are: var. australis |
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