Flowers and 'leaves'. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, north of Broken Hill, NSW

Plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, north of Broken Hill, NSW

Common Name

Rough Raspwort

Family

Haloragaceae

Notes

Perennial forb to 30cm tall, with annual stems araising from underground 'roots'. Leaves alternating up the stems, sometimes opposite each other near the base. Leaves 2-5cm long, 5-15mm wide, flat, rough with hooked hairs, rarely hairless, margins entire to toothed or lobed. with pointed tips. Flowers small (less than 3mm across), red to green, with 4 petals, solitary or in clusters of 3-5 subtended by leaflike bracts, in 'leafy' 'racemes' at the tops of the stems,.

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 536

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