Common Name

White Forget-me-not, White Rochelia

Family

Boraginaceae

Notes

Sprawling to prostrate annual forb, stems to 12cm long.  Leaves 0.8-4.5cm long, 1-3mm wide. Basal leaves opposite each other in a sparse rosette, with sheaths at their bases,  flat to linear.  Stem leaves scattered, flat and narrow, sparsely to densely rough-hairy.  Flowers tiny (less than 3mm across), white, tubular, with 4-6 lobes, solitary along the stems and on short stalks at the bases of the leaves.

Differs from Plagiobothrys elachanthus in that the calyx has 5-8 lobes, clasping the fruiting bodies, the tips spreading or curving downwards.

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 567

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