Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Haloragis aspera
Common name
Rough raspwort
Family
Haloragaceae
Where found
Disturbed sites, rocky hillsides, moist areas, and along streams. Mostly on the Western Slopes. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.35 m tall, or sprawling, with annual stems arising from the roots. Rootstock deeply rhizomatous. Stems rough with hooked hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, sometimes opposite each other near the base of the plant, 0.7-5 cm long, 4-15 mm wide, rough with hooked hairs, rarely hairless, sometimes almost glaucous, margins entire to toothed or lobed, tips pointed. Flowers with 4 hooded red to green petals each 2-4 mm long, in clusters of 3-5 flowers. Flowers mainly Oct.–Mar. Seed cases 2.5-3.5 mm long, weakly 4–8-ribbed in the upper half, the lower half with small warts (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phon/tablet to see).
Intergrades, possibly hybridizes, with Haloragis heterophylla In Vic.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Haloragis~aspera (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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