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Purple flag
Patersonia occidentalis
About
Patersonia occidentalis, commonly known as purple flag, or long purple-flag, is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae and is endemic to southern Australia. It is a tufted, rhizome-forming perennial with narrow, sharply-pointed, strap-like leaves, egg-shaped, bluish violet sepals and a cylindrical capsule. The Noongar name for the plant is komma.
- Family
- Iridaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Patersonia occidentalis
- Slug
- patersonia-occidentalis
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Iridaceae
- Genus
- Patersonia
- Species
- occidentalis
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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