About Stypandra glauca R.Br.
Stypandra glauca (common name nodding blue lily) is a perennial herb. When in flower, its flowering branches grow up to 30 cm (12 in) tall, and the plant reaches up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) wide at the base. When not in flower, the plant becomes shrub-like and grows to around 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) tall. Its leaves are stiff, pale green to bluish in color, narrowly lance-shaped, and clasp the stem in an alternate or opposite arrangement, growing up to 200 millimeters long. Drooping blue flowers grow in clusters at the ends of stems. Each flower is about 14 mm (0.55 in) long, and 20–30 mm (0.79–1.18 in) across; each petal is around 15 mm (0.59 in) long. Flowers have prominent yellow anthers, and are carried on thread-like, curved pedicels. Flowering occurs from July to November. The fruit is an oblong to oval-shaped capsule, 8–12 mm (0.31–0.47 in) long. This is a widespread species that grows on a variety of soils including sand, granite, shale, limestone and clay, sometimes in woodland and mostly in dry forest. Ingestion of its flowering plants has been found to cause blindness in goats.
