Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Lobelia surrepens
Common name
Mud pratia
Family
Campanulaceae
Where found
Grassland, along streams, wet mud, swamps, and Sphagnum bogs. Widespread. No records from the Western Slopes. Rarely coastal.
Notes
Prostrate perennial herb, creeping or mat forming. Fruit fleshy. Stems rooting at the nodes, hairless, or sparsely hairy at the tips. Leaves alternating along the stems, in one plane, pressed to the ground, 0.4-3.1 cm long, 2.4-9.5 mm wide, often thick textured, margins entire or sometimes with scattered minute indentations, rarely 1- to few-toothed. Flowers white, pinkish, or tinged mauve or pale blue, 5-11 mm long, tubular, the tube split almost to the base, with 5 lobes. Flowers single. Flowers Spring-Autumn.
Was Pratia sp. A and Pratia surrepens.
Family was Lobeliaceae.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Lobelia~surrepens (accessed 14 January, 2021)
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