Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Samolus valerandi

Common name

Common brookweed, Water pimpernel, Brookweed

Family

Primulaceae

Where found

Moist shady situations and freshwater stream margins. Coast, ranges, tablelands, and ACT.

Notes

Perennial, perhaps annual, herb to about 0.3 m high. Stems hairless, more or less smooth. Leaves alternating up the stems and often in a basal rosette, 1–4 cm long, 8–20 mm wide, thin-textured, light green, tips rounded. Flowers white, with 5 petals each 1.5–2 mm long, free from each other shortly above the base. Flowers in an elongating cluster, leafless or with leaves subtending the lowermost flowers only, to about 12 cm long. Flowers October–May.

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=Samolus~valerandi (accessed 6 February, 2021)