Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Lobelia concolor
Common name
Poison pratia
Family
Campanulaceae
Where found
Irrigated pastures, drains, moist depressions, poorly drained soils, and swamp margins. Mainly Sydney area and Western Slopes. Occsionally elsewhere.
Notes
Perennial herb, usually prostrate, sometimes upright. Rooting at the nodes and rhizomatous. Fruit somewhat fleshy. Stems sometimes sparsely hairy when young, becoming hairless, often zigzagging, often purplish towards the base. Leaves alternating along the stems, 0.6-4.5 cm long, 2.5-20 mm wide, green underneath, hairless, margins toothed. Male and female flowers on different plants. Flowers white to pinkish or tinged purple, 4.5-9.5 mm long, tubular, the tube split almost to the base, 2-lipped, the upper lip with 2 lobes, the lower lip of 3 spreading lobes. Flowers single. Flowering: mainly Nov–April.
Was Pratia concolor.
Family was Lobeliaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Lobelia~concolor (accessed 14 January, 2021)
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