Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Navarretia squarrosa
Common name
Californian Stinkweed
Family
Polemoniaceae
Where found
Weed of pasture, cultivated land, and disturbed sites. ACT, the mountains to the west, Kosciuszko National Park, and Western Slopes. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced annual herb to about 0.6 m high, with a strong odour, covered with glandular hairs. Tips of leaf lobes, the bracts surrounding the flower heads, and the tips of the calyx teeth spiny. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.5-6 cm long 10–25 mm wide, deeply dissected, the lobes narrow, rigid, and with spiny tips. Flowers pale lilac to blue, 9–12 mm long, broadly funnel-shaped, with 4-5 lobes. Flowers in dense heads 2–3 cm diameter. Flowers summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Navarretia~squarrosa (accessed 24 January, 2021)
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