Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Gratiola pedunculata

Common name

Stalked Brooklime

Family

Plantaginaceae

Where found

Stream banks and other damp places. Widespread. No records from Kosciuszko National Park.

Notes

Perennial herb to 0.5 m high or sprawling, sticky, almost hairless. Branches often rooting at the base. Leaves opposite each other, 0.8–3 cm long, 3–10 mm wide, bases stem-clasping, margins toothed to almost entire. Flowers white to pink with yellow in the mouth, 5–9 mm long, tubular, with 5 lobes, obscurely 2-lipped. Flowers on stalks 8–26 mm long, single, rarely paired, at the base of leaf-like bracts. Flowering: spring–summer.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

Data deficient Vic.

Family was Scrophulariaceae.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Gratiola~pedunculata  (accessed 19 January, 2021)