Creeping Brookweed

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Samolus repens

Attractive creeping rhizomatous plant that roots at the nodes. Small dark green oval thickish leaves, with narrower stem leaves.

Details
Flora Type
Herbs
Distinctive Features

Delicate waxy pink flowers with five petals on fine reddish stems.
Biology

Perennial. Moist sandy soils in fresh and brackish wetlands, herbfields and river margins. Tolerates salinity.
Native Status
Native
Flowering Time

Sep-Apr
Taxonomy
Phylum
Tracheophyta (Vascular Plants)
Class
Magnoliopsida (Flowering Plants)
Order
Ericales
Family
Primulaceae
Genus
Samolus
Species
repens

Source: Atlas of Living Australia

Also South America, NZ and South Pacific Islands.

Interesting Facts
Native Status
Native