Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Sprengelia incarnata
Common name
Pink swamp heath
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Swampy shrubland and wet heath and sedgeland. Coast and ranges.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high, hairless. Stems smooth. Leaves alternating up the stems, overlapping each other, 0.3–2 cm long, 2–10 mm wide, concave; tips gradually tapering to a point, and with a mucro to 0.7 mm long, margins entire, or fringed on the stem-clasping part of the leaf, bases completely sheathing the stems. Flowers pink, purplish, or white, tubular, the tube 0.5–1.3 mm long, with 5 spreading lobes each 3–5 mm long. Flowers in clusters of 3–20, often appearing to form many-flowered clusters. Flowers most of the year.
Family was Epacridaceae.
Protected NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Sprengelia~incarnata (accessed 7 February, 2021)
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