Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Baeckea linifolia

Flowers, young seed cases, and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering branches. Photographer Don Wood, Pointer Gap Lookout, Morton National Park

Common name

Swamp baeckea, Weeping baeckea

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Moist places in heath, often near waterfalls. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands north from Budawang National Park east of Braidwood. Coast and ranges south of Eden. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Shrub to 3 m tall. Larger plants weep. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, 0.5-1.8 cm long, mostly 0.5-1 mm wide, margins entire, tips pointed. Flowers 5-6.5 mm in diameter, with 5 white petals, single. Flowers Summer.

Protected NSW. Rare Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Baeckea~linifolia  (accessed 4 January, 2021)