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Naked Bluebell
Wahlenbergia gymnoclada
-37.9423, 145.348
Field Notes
Description:
Beautiful single blue flowers on delicate stalks with petals that were a perfect heart-shape. The inside of the flower showed a stark white tri-lobed stigma.
The plant was about 50 cm high with paired leaves at the base and very few leaves at the top.
Habitat:
Spotted in semi shade in a dry sclerophyll forest among other native herbs and shrubs.
Notes:
The flowers were part of indigenous diet and they also provide nectar for butterflies.
Family: Campanulaceae
Reference Links:
.: Wahlenbergia gymnoclada :.
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedOctober 31, 2014
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