Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Gratiola pubescens
Common name
Hairy brooklime
Family
Plantaginaceae
Where found
Damp places, stream banks, lake margins, and swampy ground. Mainly ranges. Occasionally coast and tsblelands.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.2 m high or sprawling, sticky hairy. Branches in larger plants creeping and rooting towards the base. Leaves opposite each other, 0.7–2.6 cm long, 2–6 mm wide, bases sometimes stem-clasping, margins toothed. Flowers 10–12 mm long, tubular, with 5 lobes, obscurely 2-lipped, white or pink-purple, the tube yellow inside. Flowers single or paired at the base of leaf-like bracts. Flowering: October–March.
Family was Scrophulariaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Gratiola~pubescens (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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