Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Comesperma sphaerocarpum
Common name
A milkwort
Family
Polygalaceae
Where found
Forest, heath, and grassy areas. Coast and ranges. Tablelands mostly north of the Kings Highway.
Notes
Straggling plant to 0.2 m high, with few, or occasionally many, more or less leafless stems. Stems more or less ridged, hairless or with scattered hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, less than 0.8 cm long, less than 2 mm wide, thick, rarely seen and then on the lower part of the plant. Flowers bright purplish blue, with 3 petals in the middle of the flower, the largest looking like the keel of a pea flower, and 2 coloured sepals that look like the wings of a pea flower. Wing sepals mostly 6 mm long. Flowers appearing single, in open clusters up the stems. Seed cases with a narrow wing.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Comesperma~sphaerocarpum (accessed 1 April 2021)
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