Flower. Photo: Lyn Allison, Melbourne

Flowers. Photo: Don Wood, ACT

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, SE of Tibooburra, NSW

Leaves. Photo: Lyn Allison, Melbourne

Common Name

Native Leek, Bulbine Lily, Golden Lily, Native Onion

Family

Asphodelaceae

Notes

Perennial grass-like forb to 75cm tall, the leaves annual.  Leaves succulent, clustered at the base of the plant, 4.5-48cm long, to 8mm wide, hairless, channelled.  Flowers often fragrant.  Flowers yellow, with 6 'petals', in racemes of up to 50 flowers on a flowering stem arising from the base of the plant. Family Liliaceae in SA.

Differs from Bulbine alata and Bulbine semibarbata in that the flowers are much larger ('petals' 9-22mm long), and the filaments of all six stamens are the same length. 

Description and photo of flowering plant (as Bulbinopsis bulbosa) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales pages 182-3

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Bulbine~bulbosa