Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Wahlenbergia capillaris
Common name
Tufted bluebell, Native bluebell
Family
Campanulaceae
Where found
Open forest, woodland, grassy areas, gardens, roadsides and other open disturbed sites, stony ridges, and near streams. Widespread.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.8 m tall, often shooting annually from the thickened taproot. Often many-stemmed in open places and gardens. Stems hairless to sparsely hairy, often hairy to rough near the base. Leaves alternating up the stems, the lowest leaves sometimes almost opposite each other, 0.4-8 cm long, 0.5-8 mm wide, hairless, sometimes the lower leaves sparsely hairy, margins flat or wavy, and entire or with a few small teeth, tips mostly pointed. Leaves sometimes lost when plants are in late-flowering condition. Flowers mauve to blue, often whitish outside, sometimes entirely white, tubular, the tube 2–9 mm long; with 5 (occasionally 6) lobes 6–15 mm long. Free lobes of the flowers 1-2 times as long as the tube. Flowers in clusters. Stigma usually with 3 lobes. Flowers all year.
Wahlenbergia communis in PlantNET.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description (as Wahlenbergia communis): http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Wahlenbergia~communis (accessed 3 May 2021)
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