Libertia formosa
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Libertia formosa (snowy mermaid[1] or Chilean-iris[2]) is an ornamental plant in the family Iridaceae. It is native to Chile. It can also be found growing wild in the San Francisco Bay Area and San Bernardino County[3] in California, where it is an introduced species.
References
- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Libertia formosa". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ "BSBI List 2007". Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-01-25. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- ^ "Libertia formosa". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- Pink, A. (2004). Gardening for the Million. Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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