Flower. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: RG & FJ Richardson, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Flowers. Photo: Don Wood, south coast, NSW

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Common Name

Broomrape

Family

Orobanchaceae

Notes

Introduced parasitic forb to 40cm tall. Plant appears leafless. Leaves alternating up the stem, without chlorophyll, 1-1.5cm long, 1-3mm wide, sticky hairy. Flowers pinkish,  or pale blue to whitish, tubular, 2-lipped, with 5 lobes, in a dense spike that lengthens as the stem lengthens at the top of the stem. Declared plant in SA. Family Scrophulariaceae in NSW.

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