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Freesia alba
Native to South Africa, now widely naturalised here in eastern and also southern Australia.
A small herbaceous plant growing 10 to 40 cm tall.
Classified as a weed of grasslands, pastures, open woodlands, urban bushland, roadsides, gardens and lawns. This specimen seen on the edge of eucalyptus forest.
''Freesia alba'' is a species of flowering plant in the iris family. Some sources consider it to be a subspecies of ''Freesia leichtlinii'', ''F. leichtlinii'' subsp. ''alba''. It is native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa, but this species and hybrids are known on other continents where they have been introduced. ''Freesia alba'' is an herbaceous perennial growing from a corm and producing an erect, often branched stem up to 40 cm centimeters tall with several leaves up to about.. more
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