Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Euphrasia scabra
Common name
Rough eyebright, Yellow eyebright
Family
Orobanchaceae
Where found
In or at the margins of swampy grassland or in sphagnum bogs. Ranges between Bega and Bombala. Bondi State Forest, SE Forests National Park, and Nunnock Swamp.
Notes
Annual herb to about 0.5 m high. Stems rough with coarse short hairs. Upper stem leaves usually 0.6–2 cm long, 1–10 mm wide, rough with coarse short hairs, lower surface covered with stalkless glands, margins lobed to toothed with 1–5 pairs of teeth and a terminal tooth. Flowers yellow, 8–14 mm long, tubular, 2-lipped, the upper lip with 2 lobes, the lower lip with 3 lobes. Flowers clustered at the tops of the stems. Flowering: October–February
Family was Scrophulariaceae.
Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
Endangered Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10329 (accessed 6 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Euphrasia~scabra (accessed 6 January 2021)
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