Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Euphrasia alsa
Common name
Dwarf eye-bright
Family
Orobanchaceae
Where found
Open shrubland, alpine feldmark, herbfields, grassland, and bare stony areas. Kosciusko National Park.
Notes
Erect annual herb to 0.08 m high. Stems with glandular hairs, often reddish purple. Leaves opposite each other, upper leaves mostly 0.4–1.5 cm long, 2–9 mm wide, lower surface covered with stalkless glands, margins lobed to toothed with 1–3 pairs of teeth or lobes. Flowers tubular, 2-lipped, the upper lip with 2 lobes, the lower lip with 3 lobes. Flowers white to mauve, with 3 conspicuous red-purple to deep violet striations on each lobe, 5.5–10.2 mm long, about 8-10 mm in diameter. Flowers usually in 15–30-flowered clusters, fewer on struggling plants. Flowering: December–February
Family was Scrophulariaceae.
PlantNET description with line drawings: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Euphrasia~alsa (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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