Citation: Caruel in Parl., Fl. Ital. 6:482 (1885).

Synonymy: Bartsia viscosa L., Sp. Pl. 602 (1753) 'Bartschia' in some works, an orthographic variant).

Common name: Yellow bartsia, sticky bartsia.

Description:
Erect viscid herb 10-70 cm high, simple or sometimes with slender branches arising from the upper nodes, covered by soft glandular and stiff eglandular hairs; leaves narrow-ovate to elliptic, 10-42 x 3-12 mm, rounded at the base, dentate, the upper ones with c. 6-10 pairs of teeth, acute.

Flowers dense with many subsessile flowers, elongating slightly in fruit; calyx tubular, 10-17 mm long, finely longitudinally ribbed, the tube more or less as long as the narrow-triangular teeth; corolla 15-24 mm long along the upperside, yellow, with broader lips than the preceding species, caducous; anthers yellow.

Capsule narrow-ovoid, slightly longer than the enlarged calyx tube, densely eglandular-strigose; seeds c. 0.35-0.45 mm long, brown, smooth or obscurely reticulate.

	Habit, leaf and flower.
Image source: fig. 599B in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Abrams (1951) Ill. Fl. Pacific States 3:fig. 4799; Ross-Craig (1966) Drawings Brit. Pl. 23:t. 11.

Distribution:  Moist to seasonally swampy areas, sometimes saline flats, in open vegetation or in association with woodland.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   Native to the Mediterranean region. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Nov. — Jan.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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