Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Gratiola pumilo
Common name
A Brooklime
Family
Plantaginaceae
Where found
On seasonally inundated, damp ground, and near steams and lakes. ACT and the tablelands east of the ACT. Western Slopes.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.18 m tall, rarely sprawling, sticky, almost hairless. Leaves opposite each other, 0.5-2.5 cm long, 3–7 mm wide, bases sometimes stem-clasping, margins toothed to entire, tips pointed. Flowers white, to 7–9 mm long, tubular, with 5 lobes, obscuredly 2-lipped. Flowers on stalks 0.5–9 mm long, single or paired at the base of leaf-like bracts.
Family was Scrophulariaceae.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Gratiola~pumilo (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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