Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Lycopus australis
Common name
Native Gipsywort, Australian Gipsywort
Family
Lamiaceae
Where found
Moist disturbed sites, wet gullies, along soakage lines and streams, and in swamps. Semiaquatic. Widespread. Rare on the Western Slopes except in the Albury district.
Notes
Perennial herb to 1.5 m high, rhizomatous. Stems 4-angled, with scattered simple hairs, becoming hairless. Nodes along the stems often hairy. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, 4–15 cm long, 8–25 mm wide, margins coarsely toothed, upper surface with scattered simple hairs, lower surface gland-dotted, tips pointed. Flowers white, often mauve-dotted at the base of each lobe, 4.5–5.5 mm long, tubular, the tube much longer than the 5 lobes. Calyx with 5 pointed lobes, almost las long as the corolla. Flowers in few- to many-flowered clusters. Flowering: December–April
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=Lycopus~australis (accessed 24 January, 2021)
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