Creamy Candles (Stackhousia monogyna)
© Harry Rose
Native, cool season, perennial, hairless to pubescent herb to 70 cm tall. Stems are erect or ascending, simple or branched. Leaves are linear to lanceolate, rarely broad-elliptic, to 30 mm long and 2–4 mm wide. Flowerheads are dense cylindrical or sparse to dense 1-sided terminal spike. Flowers occur singly along the stem and are white to deep yellow; the tube is 5–8 mm long and lobes 2.5–5 mm long. Flowering is from late winter to early summer. Grows in heath, grassland, woodland and sclerophyll forest, rarely in swamps.
Photo taken on 11 Oct 2014
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