Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Riversleigh, Qld

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Riversleigh, Qld

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Riversleigh, Qld

Common Name

Tarvine

Family

Nyctaginaceae

Notes

Annual or perennial forb, prostrate to upright, stems to 60cm or more long.  Leaves opposite each other, 1.2-5cm long, 7-35mm wide, flat, hairy, with toothed to entire margins.  Flowers pink, mauve, or white, tubular, with 5 lobes, in dense clusters of 3-10 flowers on short stems arising from the bases of the leaves and/or the ends of the stems. 

Differs from Boerhavia dominii in that the stems are densely sticky hairy, with hairs more than 0.5mm long.

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