Image: Wahlenbergia communis plant3 NWS - Flickr - Macleay Grass Man

Description: Native, cool season to yearlong green, perennial, hairless to sparsely hairy, tufted herb, 5–75 cm tall. Leaves are alternate, linear throughout or the lowermost oblanceolate; margins are entire or with small callus teeth, and glabrous or sometimes lower leaves sparsely hirsute. Flowerheads are cymes. Flowers have 2–6 mm long sepals, a blue corolla with a 4–9 mm long tube and 6–13 mm long lobes, and a 3-fid style which is not constricted. Capsules are obconic or elongated-obconic, 4–9 mm long and hairless. Flowering can occur throughout year, but is mostly in spring. Widespread in open disturbed sites, particularly along roadsides.
Title: Wahlenbergia communis plant3 NWS - Flickr - Macleay Grass Man
Credit: Wahlenbergia communis plant3 NWS
Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia
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