Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Hemigenia purpurea

Flowering stem. Photographer Peter Woodard,  Kuringai Chase National Park, Sydney

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Stem with flower calyces. Photographer John Tann, Royal National Park south of Sydney

Common name

None

Family

Lamiaceae 

Where found

Heath. Coast and ranges, mainly north of Kiama.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high. Stems Leaves aromatic when rubbed, in whorls of 3, 1–1.6 cm long, to 1 mm wide, tips pointed with a mucro, surfaces hairless. Flowers blue to mauve, 8–10 mm long, tubular, 2-lipped, upper lip notched or 2-lobed, the lower lip 3-lobed. Flowers single at the base of whorled leaves. Flowering: mostly August–April.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hemigenia~purpurea  (accessed 19 January, 2021)