Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Sherardia arvensis
Common name
Field Madder
Family
Rubiaceae
Where found
Pastures, roadsides, gardens, and disturbed sites. Widespread.
Notes
Introduced annual herb to 0.3 m tall, or prostrate to sprawling. Stems hairless or rough hairy. Leaves in whorls of 4-6, 0.5-1.5 cm long, 1-4 mm wide, tips pointed, surfaces hairless or rough mostly along the margins. Flowers 4-5 mm long, tubular, with 4 spreading lobes shorter than the tube, pink to mauve, in clusters of 4-10 flowers. Flowers Spring to Summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Sherardia~arvensis (accessed 6 February, 2021)
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