Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Oxypetalum coeruleum

Common name

Tweedia

Family

Apocynaceae

Where found

Sometimes naturalised. ACT and nearby. Occasional elsewhere.

Notes

Introduced perennial herb or shrub to 1 m high, hairy with pale hairs. Leaves opposite each other, 3–6 cm long, 10–30 mm wide, tips blunt, mucronate, bases cordate. Flowers sky-blue to purple, the outsides of the lobes sometimes pink, 20–25 mm in diameter, tubular, with 5 lobes, in open clusters. Flowers Nov.–Apr.

Was Tweedia coerulea.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Tweedia~coerulea  (accessed 25 April 2021)