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

Flowering plant. Photo Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near Innanminka, SA

Common Name

Smooth Blue-rod, Bluerod, Morgan Flower

Family

Plantaginaceae

Notes

Faintly scented perennial forb to about 40cm tall. Leaves opposite each other or in whorls of 3 or 4, to 2-5cm long, 1-5mm wide, flat, margins toothed. Flowers blue-purple, tubular, 2-lipped with 5 lobes, solitary on stalks that arise from the bases of leaf-like bracts, forming open leafy racemes at the tops of the stems. Family Scrophulariaceae in NSW and SA. Poorly known Vic.

Short description and photo (as Morgania glabra) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 599

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