Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Lobelia anceps
Common name
Angled lobelia
Family
Campanulaceae
Where found
Damp situations including wet heath, along streams, swamp margins, and seepage areas on coastal cliffs. Mainly coast and ranges. Occasionally on the tablelands.
Notes
Sprawling or prostrate, occasionally upright, perennial herb to 0.5 m high. Stems often rooting at the nodes, angled or with narrow wings, often reddish or purplish, hairless. Leaves alternating along the stems, 1-8.5 cm long, 1.5–20 mm wide, margins wavy and more or less toothed. Flowers violet, mauve, blue, pink, or almost white, 5–13 mm long, tubular, the tube split almost to the base on the upper side, 2-lipped, the upper lip with 2 small narrow lobes, the lower lip with 3 spreading lobes. Flowers single. Flowers November–July.
Was Lobelia alata.
Family was Lobeliaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Lobelia~anceps (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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