Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Vinca minor

Flower. Photographer G.Hagedorn, Italy

Flower. Photographer JC Schou, Denmark

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Bas Kers (NL), France

Common name

Lesser Periwinkle

Family

Apocynaceae

Where found

Garden escape. Mainly Sydney area. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Introduced trailing perennial herb, rooting at the nodes. Flowering stems ascending, to 0.4 m high. Leaves opposite each other, 1–4.5 cm long, 5–25 mm wide, glossy, hairless, tips pointed, bases rounded or wedge-shaped, stalk to 10 mm long. Flowers white, purplish-red or bluish-violet, tubular, the tube 9–11 mm long, with 5 spreading lobes each 8–15 mm long. Sepals 3–5 mm long, hairless. Flowers single.

VICFLORA description: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/280c7103-1b32-4118-a699-04acfc0f8e9f (accessed 3 May 2021)