Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Haloragis glauca f. glauca
Common name
Bluish Raspwort
Family
Haloragaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, shrubland, and grassland. Seasonally inundated sites, often along streams. Western Slopes.
Notes
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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