Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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)
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