Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hackelia suaveolens
Common name
Sweet hound's-tongue
Family
Boraginaceae
Where found
Damp places, often in open forest, woodland, and grassland. Widespread, but rarely coastal.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.5 m high. 'Seeds' with barbed spines, that stick to clothing. Stems with rough stiff hairs. Leaves mostly basal, 5–20 cm long, 4–28 mm wide. Stem leaves alternating up the stems, narrower, decreasing in size towards the top of the stem. Flowers 2–4.5 mm long, white or sometimes blue, funnel-shaped, with 5 lobes, the tube slightly longer than the lobes. Flowers in leafy clusters, becoming non-leafy higher on the flowering stem, in one row along one side of a coiled flower spike when young, the stalk soon elongating. Flowering: spring–summer. Burrs more or less globular.
This name has not yet been approved by the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (accessed 20 April 2021)
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description (as Hackelia suaveolens): http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hackelia~suaveolens (accessed 20 April 2021)
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