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Libertia formosa

showy libertia, snowy mermaid
Stems

60–125 cm.
Leaf

blades linear, 15–45 cm × 5–15 mm.
Capsules

round to oblong, ca. 1 mm wide.
Seeds

ca. 25.
Rhipidia

fewer than 10-flowered.
Tepals

white;

outer suberect, flushed greenish or brownish abaxially, lanceolate, less than 10 mm;

inner spreading, obovate, 12–18 mm;

pedicel 6–12 mm.

Libertia formosa
Phenology Flowering spring.
Habitat Disturbed, urban, coastal areas
Elevation 0–50 m [0–160 ft]
Distribution
from FNA
CA; South America (Chile) [Introduced in North America]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Libertia formosa is cultivated as an ornamental and is an uncommon naturalized escape in California.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Parent taxa Iridaceae > Libertia
Name authority Graham: Edinburgh New Philos. J. 15: 383. (1833)
Source FNA vol. 26, p. 350. Treatment author: Elizabeth McClintock.
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