Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Wahlenbergia multicaulis
Common name
Tadgell's bluebell
Family
Campanulaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, grassland, and gardens. Widespread.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.75 m high, sprawling, usually many-stemmed from a thickened taproot. Highly variable in size. Stems slender, wiry, hairless or sometimes hairy towards the base, branching below the inflorescence. Leaves alternating up the stems or sometimes the lowest leaves opposite each other, 0.4–8 cm long, 1–6 mm wide, tips mostly pointed, margins flat, and entire or with small hardened teeth, surfaces hairless or sometimes the lower leaves sparsely hairy. Flowers blue within, pale outside, tubular, the tube 0.5–2.5 mm long, with 5 widely spreading lobes 2–9 mm long. Free lobes of the flower usualy more than 4 times as long as the tube. Stigma usually with 3 lobes, the style obviously narrowed near the stigma. Flowers in open clusters. Flowering: throughout the year.
Endangered population in the local government areas of Auburn, Bankstown, Baulkham Hills, Canterbury, Hornsby, Parramatta and Strathfield. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species or a part of a threatened ecological community.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10831 (accessed 8 January, 2021)
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~multicaulis (accessed 8 January, 2021)
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