Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Thyridia repens
Common name
Creeping monkey-flower
Family
Phrymaceae
Where found
Coastal lake margins, along streams, and swampy sites.
Notes
Annual or perennial herb, usually prostrate and mat-forming, to 0.2 m tall when aquatic. Stems hairless and sticky. Leaves opposite each other, 0.1-0.6 cm long, 0.5-3 mm wide, hairless, sticky, tips pointed to blunt, margins entire. Flowers tubular, two-lipped, 4-lobed, the tube 5-10 mm long, white or yellow, sometimes with red spots, the lobes blue, purple or mauve to pink, the lower lip about 4 mm long with a prominent yellow raised boss. Flowers single. Flowers Spring to Autumn.
Was Mimulus repens.
Family was Scrophulariaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Thyridia~repens (accessed 7 February, 2021)
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