Common Name

Hairy Forget-me-not

Family

Boraginaceae

Notes

Annual forb, sprawling or occasionally to 15cm tall. Young stems fleshy. Leaves 1-4cm long, 1-3mm wide, linear to flat, sparsely hairy. The larger leaves with a broad sheath at the base, opposite each other forming a sparse basal rosette, the smaller leaves alternating along the stems. Flowers small (less than 3mm across), white, tubular, with 5 non-spreading lobes, solitary on short stalks at the bases of the leaves.

Differs from Plagiobothrys plurisepaleus in that the calyx has 5 lobes, loosely sheathing the fruiting bodies, the tips erect.

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 566

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