Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Stylidium montanum
Common name
Alpine Trigger-plant, Montane Trigger-plant
Family
Stylidaceae
Where found
Subalpine and alpine heath, herbfields, grassland, stream banks, fens, and bogs. Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, and ACT. Tablelands and the western edge of the ranges south from the Tinderry Range. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Perennial herb, sometimes rhizomatous. Flower stalks to 0.45 m high, often sticky hairy above the lowest flower, almost hairless below it, usually reddish. Leaves basal, 4-15 cm long, 3-7 mm wide, pale to mid-green, tips often sharply pointed, margins membranous and toothed at the tips only or entire. Flowers 7-12 mm in diameter, tubular, with 4 dark pink to magenta petals, and a hinged column 6-9 mm long sensitive to movement, arising from the centre of the flower. Flowers 7-20 up the flower stalk. Flowers Nov.–Mar. Seed cases covered in small warts.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic.
VICFLORA description: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/142460a7-a377-4096-b683-ff56b4b686b7 (accessed 3 May 2021)
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