Posted Sat, 16/04/2011 - 18:05 by BB
Common Names:
Bronze-backed Bluebell, Yellowish Bluebell
Herb, with narrow, greyish green leaves. Sometimes these are hairy. The flowers have five petals which are blue but have a reverse which is variously cream to deep chrome-yellow. In the most striking forms, this colour approaches a burnished bronze.
Very similar to Wahlenbergia communis but differs in the cream to yellow-backed petals.
Posted Sat, 16/04/2011 - 14:41 by BB
A tufted, perennial herb, eventually forming a tangled mass of fine stems. Grows usually to about 30cm high. Alternate leaves are narrow and wavy-edged. Small flowers are around 4mm wide and with a rounded ovary.
Posted Fri, 15/04/2011 - 22:04 by BB
A narrow erect herb to approximately 40cm tall. The foliage is narrow, dark green. Wiry stems are topped by small, deep blue flowers on relatively large, narrow funnel-shaped ovaries. This is perhaps the best way to distinguish this species from relatives such as the Tufted Bluebell, Wahlenbergia communis
Posted Fri, 15/04/2011 - 21:33 by BB
A vigorous herb with a creeping root system. The dark green foliage grows to approximately 20cm tall. Flowers are produced abundantly from Spring to Autumn, reaching approximately 40cm tall. The leaves are narrow and almost hairless which helps to distinguish it from Wahlenbergia stricta. The petals of W. communis are narrower and don't overlap at the base in the same way as those of W.
Posted Fri, 15/04/2011 - 20:19 by BB
A small annual Bluebell with a few pairs of hairy, rounded leaves are produced at the base of the plant.
Thread-like stems grow to about 15cm high. These branch loosely and are tipped by the tiny blue flowers.
Flowers are only about 2mm across and have 4 or five petals. The ovary below the flower is very rounded and about the size and shape of a match-head.
Posted Thu, 16/09/2010 - 22:34 by tonyf
Posted Sat, 08/05/2010 - 09:00 by BB
Vigorous rhizomatous groundcover. Resembles Dichondra repens but the leaves are hairless and slightly scalloped on the edge. The flowers are only found by careful searching, being very small and green. They occur in clusters at the base of the plant's leaves.
Posted Sat, 08/05/2010 - 08:57 by BB
Tall, to 1 metre Sedge with tubular, rush like stems which replace the function of leaves of a typical sedge. True leaves are found on young plants and new regrowth following a fire. Flowerheads are produced in spring (September-October). Spikelets or male and female flowers are produced together in a dense head. When the female flowers are receptive, pale sticky stigmas decorate the dark bracts of the head.
Posted Sat, 08/05/2010 - 08:43 by BB
A small, dense tufty Carex with bright, shiny green foliage to about 20 cm high. Slender flowering stems grow to about the same length as the leaves. This is one of the sedge species which occur widely through the landscape, distant from wetlands or waterways although it does tend to occur in damper soils.
Posted Sat, 08/05/2010 - 08:38 by BB
A sedge with a rhizomatous (running) habit. Grows to about 40 cm high. Leaves are fine, greyish and gracefully curled at the ends. Generally quite sparse. Flowering stems are produced in September. Dark, narrow spikelets of male flowers are produced on the ends of the inflorescences while chubby female spikelets occur lower on the stems.
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