Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Parentucellia latifolia
Common name
Red bartsia
Family
Orobanchaceae
Where found
Open forest, woodland, grassy areas, disturbed or overgrazed sites, and moist and marshy areas. Western Slopes, ACT, tablelands, and Sydney area. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced annual herb to 0.3 m high, covered by soft glandular and stiff simple hairs. Stems usually purple. Leaves opposite or almost opposite each other, 0.3–1.5 cm long, 2–7 mm wide, margins toothed or lobed. Flowers red-purple with the inner face of the lobes pink, rarely white throughout, 8–13 mm long, with a slender tube and very short narrow upper and lower lips. The two upper lobes joined together to form a hood. The lower lip three lobed. Calyx often dark purplish green. Flower clusters dense, with few to many flowers. Flowering: September–December.
Family was Scrophulariaceaae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Parentucellia~latifolia (accessed 30 January, 2021)
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