Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Isotoma axillaris
Common name
Rock isotome, Showy isotome
Family
Campanulaceae
Where found
Crevices on rocky cliffs and around rock waterholes and other dry open rocky areas. Coast, ranges, and Western Slopes. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.50 m high. Stems often purplish, hairy with minute hairs to hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.5–15 cm long, 0.5–6 mm wide, more or less deeply dissected, margins often toothed. Flowers tubular with 5 lobes, bright blue to mauve or pale blue, rarely pink or white, throat sometimes yellow, white or greenish; tube 15–60 mm long, the tube very shortly slit; lobes 8–18 mm long. Flowers single. Flowering: September–May.
Family was Lobeliaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Isotoma~axillaris (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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