Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Cymbalaria muralis subsp. muralis
Common name
Ivy-leaved Toadflax
Family
Plantaginaceae
Where found
Moist sites in gardens and glasshouses. Rockeries and crevices in walls. Mainly Sydney area. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced perennial herb, sprawling. Stems hairless or sparsely hairy. Stems, leaf stalks, and flower stalks often reddened. Leaves alternating along the stems, 0.5–3 cm long, 5–35 mm wide, roundish to kidney-shaped, upper surface dark green, lower surface grey-green, margins with 5–11 teeth. Flowers purple to pale mauve, the rounded boss at the base of the 3 lower lobes white, with 2 bright yellow ridges. Flowers tubular, 6–8.5 mm long, 2-lipped, with 5 lobes, with a curved spur 2–3 mm long pointing backwards. Flowers single. Flowers Oct.–Jan.
Family was Scrophulariaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cymbalaria~muralis (accessed 9 January, 2021)
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