Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Asperula ambleia
Common name
Stiff woodruff
Family
Rubiaceae
Where found
Woodland and shrubland, usually among rocks in damp situations or on river banks. Tablelands and ACT.
Notes
Perennial herb or shrub to 0.3 m tall with a woody rootstock. Stems rigid, angular, rough hairy with minute hairs, particularly on the angles. Leaves in whorls of 4, one pair smaller than the other, 0.1–0.5 cm long, 0.3-3 mm wide, more or less appressed against the stems, midrib broad, surfaces hairless or sparsely rough, with a tuft of bristly hairs at the tip, tips more or less blunt. Male and female flowers on separate plants. Flowers white to pale yellow, 2-3 mm in diameter, tubular, with 4 lobes. Flowers in clusters of 1-3 flowers. Flowering: spring–autumn.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Endangered Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Asperula~ambleia (accessed 28 April 2021)
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