Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Bartsia trixago
Common name
None
Family
Orobanchaceae
Where found
Mallee, disturbed sites, crops and moist places. Western Slopes. Rarely elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced annual herb to 0.7 m high, Stems sticky, often bristly. Leaves opposite each other, 1.5–9 cm long, 1–15 mm wide, margins coarsely toothed. Flowers 2-lipped, with a purple to pale pink upper lip and a spreading whitish or yellowish lower lip, rarely entirely white, 17–20 mm long, the upper lip hood-like, the lower lip longer and broader than the upper, 3-lobed. Flowers in dense clusters, each flower subtended by a leaf-like bract. Flowers summer.
Family was Scrophulariaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Bartsia~trixago (accessed 4 January, 2021)
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