Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Euphrasia bowdeniae

Common name

An eyebright

Family

Orobanchaceae

Where found

Wet heath on damp rocky sites. Blue Mountains.

Notes

Perennial herb usually to about 0.22 m high, sometimes sprawling. Stems often reddish, with 2 rows of stiff simple hairs. Leaves opposite each other. Upper stem leaves 0.4.0–0.75 cm long, 1.2–3.2 mm wide, lower surface covered with stalkless glands, margins usually with 1 pair of teeth, or sometimes entire. Flowers mauve to violet with deeper markings in the throat; 7–10.5 mm long, tubular, 2-lipped, the upper lip with 2 lobes, the lower lip with 3 lobes. Flowers in 4–20-flowered clusters. Flowering: spring–summer.  

Family was Scrophulariaceae.

Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

NSW Threatened Species profile with photos:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10325  (accessed 6 January, 2021)

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