Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Wahlenbergia fluminalis
Common name
River bluebell
Family
Campanulaceae
Where found
Inland floodplains and on red soils. Western Slopes.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.8 m tall, usually many-stemmed from a thickened taproot. Stems hairless or sometimes sparsely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.4-8 cm long, 0.5–5 mm wide, tips mostly pointed, margins flat or sometimes wavy, and entire or with a few small hardened teeth, surfaces hairless or sparsely hairy. Flowers blue, tubular, the tube 0.5–1.5 mm long, with 5 widely spreading lobes each 3–9 mm long. Free lobes of the flower usualy more than 4 times as long as the tube. Flowers in open clusters. Flowering: throughout the year.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Wahlenbergia~fluminalis (accessed 11 February, 2021)
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