Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Gratiola peruviana
Common name
Austral brooklime, Australian brooklime
Family
Plantaginaceae
Where found
Forest and woodland, along streams and in moist sites, and in water. Widespread.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.50 m tall or sprawling, somewhat sticky, hairless to hairy. Stems sometimes rooting at the base. Leaves opposite each other, 1-4.5 cm long, 5-27 mm wide, margins toothed, bases stem-clasping. Flowers 6-12 mm long, pink with fine red-purple striations, tubular, with 5 lobes, obscurely 2-lipped, stalkless. Flowers single, rarely paired, at the base of leaf-like bracts. Flowers Spring to Autumn.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Family was Scrophulariaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Gratiola~peruviana (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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