Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Sprengelia sprengelioides

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Coffs Harbour

Common name

A sprengelia

Family

Ericaceae

Where found

Swampy heath. Sydney area and north. Rarely farther south.

Notes

Shrub to 1 m  high, hairless. Stems wiry, smooth. Leaves alternating up the stems, overlapping each other, 0.3–1.2 cm long, 1.5–3.2 mm wide, tips gradually tapering to a point, with a mucro 0.3–0.4 mm long; margins with minute teeth, bases completely sheathing the stems. Flowers white, tubular, the tube usually 2–3 mm long, rarely to 6 mm long, with 5 erect to spreading lobes each about 6 mm long. Flowers single. Flowering: June–September

Family was Epacridaceae. 

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