Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Navarretia squarrosa

Common name

Californian Stinkweed

Family

Polemoniaceae

Where found

Weed of pasture, cultivated land, and disturbed sites. ACT, the mountains to the west, Kosciuszko National Park, and Western Slopes. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Introduced annual herb to about 0.6 m high, with a strong odour, covered with glandular hairs. Tips of leaf lobes, the bracts surrounding the flower heads, and the tips of the calyx teeth spiny. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.5-6 cm long 10–25 mm wide, deeply dissected, the lobes narrow, rigid, and with spiny tips. Flowers pale lilac to blue, 9–12 mm long, broadly funnel-shaped, with 4-5 lobes. Flowers in dense heads 2–3 cm diameter. Flowers summer.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Navarretia~squarrosa (accessed 24 January, 2021)