Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Wahlenbergia planiflora subsp. planiflora
Common name
A bluebell
Family
Campanulaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and grassland. Western edge of the ranges. Tablelands, ACT, the mountains to the west, and Kosciuszko National Park. Occasional elsewhere.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.7 m high, usually few-stemmed from a thickened taproot. Stems hairless to hairy, or hairy near the base. Leaves alternating up the stems or sometimes the lower leaves opposite each other, 0.4–9.5 cm long, 1–11 mm wide, tips blunt to pointed, margins flat or sometimes wavy, entire or with small hardened teeth, surfaces hairless or hairy. Flowers blue, usually pale blue, tubular, the tube 1–3.5 mm long, with 5 widely spreading lobes each 4.5–13.5 mm long. Free lobes of the flower usualy more than 4 times as long as the tube. Stigma with 3 lobes. Flowers in open clusters. Flowering: throughout the year.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Wahlenbergia~planiflora (accessed 11 February, 2021)
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