Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Sprengelia monticola

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Rock Sprengelia

Family

Ericaceae

Where found

Wet rock faces and ledges or cliff bases on sandstone. Blue Mountains.

Notes

Shrub to 0.5 m high or sprawling, hairless.. Stems smooth. Leaves alternating up the stems, overlapping each other, 0.3–0.85 cm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide, tips pointed and with a mucro to 0.3 mm long, margins entire, bases completely sheathing the stems. Flowers white or pinkish, with 5 erect petals, each 8–9 mm long, free from each other or joined for 0.2–0.3 mm at the base. Flowers single. Flowering: September–December.

Family was Epacridaceae. 

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Sprengelia~monticola (accessed 7 February, 2021)