Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Mitrasacme serpyllifolia
Common name
Thyme Mitrewort
Family
Loganiaceae
Where found
Woodland, heath, and moist and swampy sites. Widespread, but not on the Western Slopes west of the Hume Highway.
Notes
Perennial herb, prostrate, often mat-forming or sprawling. Stems sparsely hairy with minute, more or less appressed, hairs. Leaves opposite each other, 0.2–1.2 cm long, 1–6 mm wide, tips blunt; margins flat to slightly curved down; often fringed, surfaces hairless. Flowers white, sometimes yellowish in the throat, rarely all yellowish to greenish, 1.5–2 mm long, tubular, with 4 lobes 1–1.5 mm long. Flowers single. Flowers most of the year.
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=Mitrasacme~serpyllifolia (accessed 24 January, 2021)
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