Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Wahlenbergia littoricola subsp. litttoricola

Flower. Photographer John Tann, Oxley Wild Rivers National Park near Armidale

Flowering plant. Photographer Don Wood, Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve, ACT

Leaf and stem. Photographer John Tann, Oxley Wild Rivers National Park near Armidale

Common name

Coastal bluebell

Family

Campanulaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, heath, and grassy areas. Coast and ranges. Uncommon elsewhere.

Notes

Perennial herb to 0.8 m tall. Stems hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems or sometimes the lowermost leaves opposite each other, 0.4-6 cm long, 1-4 mm wide, very narrow throughout or the lowermost leaves wider, margins flat or wavy, entire or toothed, tips mostly pointed. Flowers blue, tubular, with 5 lobes, each 5-9 mm long. Free flower lobes about 3 times as long as the flower tube. Flowers in clusters. Seed cases less than 3 times as long as broad. Flowers all year.

Wahlenbergia littoricola in PlantNET.

Was Wahlenbergia litticola.

Hybrids between Wahlenbergia littoricola and Wahlenbergia gracilis have been recorded.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

PlantNET description (as Wahlenbergia littoricola): http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Wahlenbergia~littoricola (accessed 3 May 2021)