Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Linaria pelisseriana
Common name
Pelisser's toadflax
Family
Plantaginaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, shrubland, grassy areas, disturbed sites, and along streams. Tablelands, ACT, the mountains to the west, Kosciuszko National Park, and Western Slopes
Notes
Introduced annual herb to 0.7 m high, hairless. Short lower non-flowering branches with leaves in whorls of 3, 0.2–1 cm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide. Flowering branches with leaves alternating up the stems, 1–4 cm long, 0.5–1 mm wide. Flowers purple-violet or purplish blue to pink, with a whitish hairy pouched swelling closing the mouth. Flowers 6–9 mm long, with a backwards-pointing spur 7-9 mm long. Flowers tubular, 2-lipped, the upper lip with 2 narrow lobes, the lower lip shorter, with 3 curved down lobes. Flowers in few- to many-flowered clusters, at first short and dense, elongating at the seeding stage, to 25 cm long. Flowering: spring.
Family was Scrophulariaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Linaria~pelisseriana (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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