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Nodding Greenhood

Pterostylis nutans

Photo by Aonach_Eagach
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Field Notes

Description:

Growing with other small wildflowers, gregarious.

Habitat:

Open stoney area above a Eucalypt forest, damp to wet this time of year

Notes:

Erect perennial herb to 30cm high, leaves elliptic with wavy margins to 4 cm, flowers white with green stripes. Hood formal by middle sepal and 2 lower petals is bent downward.

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