''Stypandra glauca'', commonly known as the nodding blue lily, is a flowering plant in the family Asphodelaceae. It is a rhizomatous perennial plant with blue lily-like flowers with yellow stamens. It is widespread across southern areas of Australia.

Description

''Stypandra glauca'' is a perennial herb with flowering branches to high and up to wide at the base, becoming shrub-like and about high when not flowering. The leaves are stiff, pale green to bluish, narrowly lance-shaped, stem-clasping in an alternate, opposite arrangement, and are up to 200 millimetres long. The drooping, blue flowers are borne in clusters at the end of stems, about long, about across, each petal about long, prominent yellow anthers,

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thread-like and curved. Flowering occurs from July to November and the fruit is oblong to oval-shaped capsule, long.

Taxonomy and naming

''Stypandra glauca'' was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown and the description was published in '' Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae''. The

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(''glauca'') means "sea green" in reference to the foliage.

Distribution and habitat

Nodding blue lily is a widespread species growing on a variety of soils including sand, granite, shale, limestone and clay sometimes in woodland or mostly in dry forest. Ingestion of flowering plants has been found to cause blindness in goats.

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