Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Baeckea brevifolia

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Nerriga-Nowra Road, Morton National Park

Common name

Short-leaved baeckea

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Heath. North from Bawley Point. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.

Notes

Shrub to 1 m tall. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, 0.1-0.4 cm long, to 1 mm wide, stalkless, margins entire, tips more or less blunt. Flowers 4-5 mm in diameter, with 5 white to pink petals. Sepals small, reddish. Flowers single. Flowers Spring to Summer.

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