This variable dioecious perennial has upright dark green linear greass-like leaves that form a tufted habit. It has small cream globular bell-shaped pendant flowers, appear in upright clusters on slender stem amongst the foliage from spring to summer.   

Hardiness zones 8 to 11 

Lomandra filiformis is naturally found in Australia growing in open forest from Queensland to inland and coastal New South Wales, extending to Victoria. 

It prefers a well drained moderately fertile sandy-stony soil that is neutral tending acidic in a semi-shaded to sunny protected to open position and is frost and drought tolerant. 

The Wattle Mat-rush is grown for its foliage and is planted in small gardens along borders or in mass plantings as a ground cover. It is suitable for coastal or inland regions establishing in one season from division. It is also used in planter boxes or planted around water features. ID 2505

Lomandra (loh-MAN-drah) filiformis (fil-e-FORM-is)

Xanthorrhoeaceae (zan-thor-RHO-AY-see-ee)