Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Haloragis glauca f. glauca
Bluish Raspwort
Haloragaceae
Dry forest, woodland, shrubland, and grassland. Seasonally inundated sites, often along streams. Western Slopes.
Perennial herb to 0.5 m tall or sprawling, arising annually from a perennial rootstock. Rootstock deeply rhizomatous. Stems glaucous, hairless, or rough with semi-appressed hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems or nearly opposite each other, 1.5-5 cm long, 2-15 mm wide, glaucous, hairless or almost hairless, sometimes somewhat rough, margins entire or toothed or dissected and rough, tips blunt. Leaflike bracts below the flower clusters 0.5-0.8 cm long. Flowers with 4 hooded green to yellow petals each 1.8–3 mm long. Flowers in 1-3 flowered sub-clusters, each subtended by a leaf-like bract, forming elongated clusters at the tops of the stems. Seed cases 2-2.5 mm long, yellowish to dark reddish-brown, globular to pear-shaped, weakly 4–8-ribbed in the upper part, warty at the base (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see).
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Haloragis~glauca (accessed 12 January, 2021)
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