Wurmbea tenella, common name - eight nancy, is a perennial herb in the Colchicaceae family that is native to Western Australia.

The purple or red anthers are about 1 mm long, and the styles are free.

[5] The species was first formally described in 1846 by Austrian botanist Stephen Endlicher in Plantae Preissianae, based on plant material found in the "damp and muddy sanddunes of the Swan River near the town of Perth".

[1][2] The specific epithet, tenella, is a Latin adjective (tenellus, -a, -um) which describes the plant as "delicate".

[7] Wurmbea tenella is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.