Stypandra glauca (nodding blue lily)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Stypandra glauca, photographed by Ann Bentley — fig. a Ann Bentley, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-17 / obs. 163954023

Stypandra glauca, photographed by Claudia Schipp — fig. b Claudia Schipp, CC0 1.0 / obs. 96167545

Stypandra glauca, photographed by Cal Wood — fig. c Cal Wood, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57059878

Stypandra glauca, photographed by Kiri Bee — fig. d Kiri Bee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100380713

Stypandra glauca, photographed by botanygirl — fig. h botanygirl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 1281051

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Native distribution of Stypandra glauca, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
New South Wales	NSW	AUSTRALASIA
Queensland	QLD
South Australia	SOA
Victoria	VIC
Western Australia	WAU

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 301 in flower of 359 examined

14%

20%

29%

25%

79%

90%

92%

97%

82%

72%

Proportion of examined Stypandra glauca in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	2	4	too few examined
Feb	1	2	too few examined
Mar	1	7	14%	3% to 51%
Apr	1	5	20%	4% to 62%
May	2	7	29%	8% to 64%
Jun	2	8	25%	7% to 59%
Jul	11	14	79%	52% to 92%
Aug	36	40	90%	77% to 96%
Sep	102	111	92%	85% to 96%
Oct	91	94	97%	91% to 99%
Nov	31	38	82%	67% to 91%
Dec	21	29	72%	54% to 85%

Peak flowering in Oct. Each bar is the share of Stypandra glauca observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 301 of 359 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 2 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 14 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Arthropodium glaucum (R.Br.) Spreng.
Arthropodium imbricatum (R.Br.) Spreng.
Stypandra frutescens Knowles & Westc.
Stypandra glauca var. grandiflora (Lindl.) Baker
Stypandra glauca var. minor F.Muell.
Stypandra glauca var. propinqua (A.Cunn. ex Hook.) Baker
Stypandra graminea Gand.
Stypandra grandiflora Lindl.
Stypandra imbricata R.Br.
Stypandra laeta Gand.
Stypandra latifolia Gand.
Stypandra propinqua A.Cunn. ex Hook.
Stypandra scoparia Endl.
Stypandra virgata Endl.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.