Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Wahlenbergia densifolia
Common name
Fairy bluebell
Family
Campanulaceae
Where found
Subalpine grassland and herbfields. Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.3 m tall, with spreading rhizomes. Stems mostly unbranched, more or less hairy towards the base, otherwise hairless. Leaves very crowded toward base of the plant, irregularly opposite each other, alternating up the stems, or whorled, 0.2–0.1.2 cm long, 0.5–2 mm wide, tips mostly blunt, margins flat, entire, or with small hardened teeth, lower leaves more or less hairy, upper leaves hairless. Flowers blue to purple, tubular, the tube 2.5–7.5 mm long, with 5 widely spreading lobes 8–23 mm long. Stigma with 2-3 lobes. Flowers single. Flowering: summer.
Vulnerable Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Wahlenbergia~densifolia (accessed 11 February, 2021)
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