Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Bacopa monnieri

Flowering stem. Photographer Jan Sevcik, Czech Republic

Flowers and leaves. Photographers Forest & Kim Starr, Hawaii, USA

Line drawings. USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database  Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 3: 192.

Common name

Bacopa, Brahmi

Family

Plantaginaceae

Where found

Coastal north from Jervis Bay. margins of freshwater or brackish pools or streams, sometimes submerged.

Notes

Prostrate perennial herb, rooting at the nodes, often forming dense mats. Leaves often more or less fleshy. Branchlets hairless. Leaves opposite each other, 0.35–1.5 cm long, 1.5–7 mm wide, tips rounded, margins entire. Flowers white or pale blue, 4.5–9 mm long, tubular, the tube 2–4.5 mm long, with 5 spreading rounded lobes. Flowering: spring–summer.

Family was Scrophulariaceae.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Bacopa~monnieri (accessed 4 January, 2021)