Botanical name

Eriospermum nanum

Family

Asparagaceae

Common Name

Cottonseed
Eriospermum nanum
Eriospermum nanum
Eriospermum nanum
Eriospermum nanum
Eriospermum nanum
Eriospermum nanum

Description

Tuberous geophyte up to 30cm. Leaf is usually dry at flowering, suberect, heart-shaped, 45 x 55mm. Flowers are in a lax raceme on a slender peduncle, inner tepals are erect and flowers are cream in colour, up to 8mm across; filaments narrowly triangular; pedicels wiry up to 30mm long.

Habitat

Sandstone soils

Flower Date

February to May often after fire