Flowers and seed cases. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Mugga Mugga Nature Reserve, ACT

Flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, south coast, NSW

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Mugga Mugga Nature Reserve, ACT

Plant. Photo: Don Wood, Carnarvon Station Bush Heritage Reserve, Qld

Common Name

Australian Hound's-tongue

Family

Boraginaceae

Notes

Annual or perennial forb to 1m tall. Leaves at the base of the plant and alternating up the stems, 2-25cm long, 8-40mm wide, flat, hairy, pointed, upper leaves with wavy edges. Basal leaves with a sheath at the base. Flowers blue, pink, or whitish, funnel-shaped, with 5 lobes, borne along one side of narrow well-spaced racemes at the tops of the stems. Burr hairless, with many barbed spines.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 565

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cynoglossum~australe