Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near Maude west of Hay, NSW

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Fruiting body and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near Maude west of Hay, NSW

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near Maude west of Hay, NSW

Common Name

Poison Pratia, Milky Lobelia

Family

Campanulaceae

Notes

Prostrate perennial forb. Leaves alternating along the stems, 1-3cm long, 3-15mm wide, flat, hairless, edges toothed. Male and female flowers on different plants. Flowers white, or pink tinged purple, tubular, the tube split to the base, with 5 lobes, borne singly on stems arising from the bases of the leaves Fruit somewhat fleshy. Pratia concolor in NSW. Family Lobeliaceae in NSW. Rare SA (as Pratia concolor).

Description and photo (as Pratia concolor)  in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 630

PlantNET description (as Pratia concolor):   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pratia~concolor