Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Samolus repens
Common name
Creeping brookweed
Family
Primulaceae
Where found
Coastal cliffs, beaches, and margins of brackish or salty coastal streams, lakes and swamps. Coastal. Rarely in the ranges.
Notes
Herb to 0.6 m high, or creeping, often rhizomatous or stoloniferous. Leaves somewhat fleshy. Stems hairless, usually wrinkled or warty. Leaves alternating up the stems, sometimes in a basal rosette, 1–3 cm long, 2–8 mm wide. Stem leaves somewhat fleshy, tips pointed or blunt. Flowers white or occasionally pale pink, with 5 petals each about 5–7 mm long, united in the lower third. Flowers single or in few-flowered leafy clusters. Flowers usually September–April.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Samolus~repens (accessed 6 February, 2021)
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