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

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

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Peter Ollerenshaw, north of Port Augusta, SA

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, west of Wanaaring, NSW

Common Name

Sturt's Pigface

Family

Aizoaceae

Notes

Shrub or woody perennial forb to 1m tall. Leaves fleshy, opposite each other, 1-5cm long, 1-5mm wide, linear, cylindrical to more or less flattened, hairy. Flowers with 4 'petals', white inside, solitary at the ends of the stems or in the forks of the branches.

Description and photo (as Aizoon quadrifidum) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 291

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