Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Buglossoides arvensis

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Eyre Peninsula, SA

Flowering plants. Photographer s JC Schou, Denmark

Line drawings. c. flowering branch; segment of seed case (top and bottom view). S Clark, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Common name

Sheepweed

Family

Boraginaceae

Where found

Disturbed sites. Widespread. Mostly Sydney area, Canberra, and the Western Slopes.

Notes

Introduced annual herb to 0.45 m high. Stems densely covered with coarse appressed hairs. Leaves in a basal rosette and alternating up the stems, surfaces densely hairy, margins entire. Basal leaves 2–10 cm long, 2–15 mm wide, stem leaves alternating up stems, becoming shorter towards the tops of the stems. Flowers white to cream, 6–7 mm long, tubular, with 5 lobes. Flowers in clusters. Flowers Aug.–Feb.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Buglossoides~arvensis  (accessed 6 January, 2021)