Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Anchusa arvensis
Common name
Wild Bugloss
Family
Boraginaceae
Where found
Disturbed sites and stream banks. Bathurst and west from Bathurst. Rarely elsewhere. Doubtfully naturalised in the ACT.
Notes
Introduced annual or biennial herb to 0.6 m high. Stems covered with bristly spreading hairs. Leaves in a basal rosette and alternating up the stems, densely hairy, margins wavy and toothed. Basal leaves 2.5–20 cm long, 3–20 mm wide; stem leaves becoming smaller up the stems. Flowers blue, rarely white, 5–9 mm long, with a narrowly funnel-shaped curved tube, and 5 unequal almost round lobes each 3–5 mm long. Flowers in clusters on one side of the coiled stalk when young, the stem soon elongating. Flowers most of the year.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Anchusa~arvensis (accessed 3 January, 2021)
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