Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Brunonia australis

Flower heads. Photographer Richard Hartland, Brisbane Ranges, Vic

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Blue pincushion

Family

Goodeniaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, grassy areas, sand dunes, and moist sites. Western Slopes, Kosciuszko National Park, and north of the Hume Highway on the ranges and tablelands. Coastal north of Wollongong. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Perennial herb to 0.5 m high. Stems hairy. Leaves in a basal cluster, 3–16 cm long, 3–45 mm wide, surfaces green and silky, margins entire, tips more or less pointed. Flowers bright blue, tubular, the tube 3 to about 5 mm long; with 5 lobes 3–4 mm long. Flower heads hemispherical, 13–25 mm in diameter. Flowering: spring-summer.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Brunonia~australis  (accessed 6 January, 2021)