Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Gratiola pubescens
Hairy brooklime
Plantaginaceae
Damp places, stream banks, lake margins, and swampy ground. Mainly ranges. Occasionally coast and tsblelands.
Perennial herb to 0.2 m high or sprawling, sticky hairy. Branches in larger plants creeping and rooting towards the base. Leaves opposite each other, 0.7–2.6 cm long, 2–6 mm wide, bases sometimes stem-clasping, margins toothed. Flowers 10–12 mm long, tubular, with 5 lobes, obscurely 2-lipped, white or pink-purple, the tube yellow inside. Flowers single or paired at the base of leaf-like bracts. Flowering: October–March.
Family was Scrophulariaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Gratiola~pubescens (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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