Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Lobelia andrewsii
Common name
Trailing lobelia
Family
Campanulaceae
Where found
Rock crevices in forest and heath. North of Termeil. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.
Notes
Erect to sprawling herb, usually less than 0.3 m high, hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1–5.5 cm long, 2–12 mm wide. Lowest leaves oval with pointed tips, deeply dissected, upper leaves narrower, dissected, becoming linear, margins toothed to entire. Flowers blue to violet, pale at the base, to 17 mm long, tubular, the tube 4.5–7 mm long, 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 in one-sided clusters of up to 12-flowers. Flowering: November–July.
Family was Lobeliaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Lobelia~andrewsii (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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