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

Flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, ACT

Flower and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Namadgi National Park, ACT

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Namadgi National Park, ACT

Common Name

Austral Brooklime, Australian Brooklime

Family

Plantaginaceae

Notes

Perennial forb to 50cm tall or sprawling. Leaves opposite each other, stem-clasping, 1-4.5cm long, 4-40mm wide, flat, hairless or sparsely hairy, edges toothed. Flowers pale pink with fine red-purple striations, tubular, with 5 lobes, solitary on short stalks at the bases of the leaves. Family Scrophulariaceae in NSW and SA.

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