Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Wahlenbergia graniticola
Common name
Granite bluebell
Family
Campanulaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, shrubland, grassy areas, and roadsides. Widespread.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.95 m tall. Lower parts of the stems hairy to bristly or sometimes hairless, upper parts hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, sometimes the lowermost opposite each other, 0.4-8 cm long, 0.5-15 mm wide, becoming linear on the upper stems, margins flat to wavy, and entire or toothed, tips more or less blunt to pointed. Lower leaves hairy, upper leaves hairless with coarse, moderately stiff hairs. Flowers blue, often whitish outside, tubular, the tube 2–9 mm long, with 5 lobes, each 5–20 mm long. Free lobes of the flower less than four times as long as the tube.Stigma usually with 3 lobes. Flowers in open clusters. Flowers all year.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Wahlenbergia~graniticola (accessed 11 February, 2021)
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