Citation: Druce, Rep. Botl Soc. Exch. Club Br. Isl. 1916:641 ( 1917).

Synonymy: Lobelia concolor R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 563 (1810); P. erecta Gaudich., Voy. auct. Monde (Bot.) 456 (1829).

Common name: Poison pratia, milky lobella.

Description:
Prostrate and somewhat succulent herb with rhizomes, the roots thick and fleshy, the glabrous branches often zig-zagging from leaf to leaf; leaves sessile or almost so, oblong-lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, 10-30 x 3-15 mm, obtuse or acute with widely spaced teeth or serrations each somewhat thickened, glabrous.

Flowers borne singly in the axils of leaf-like bracts towards the apex of branches; peduncle 3-13 mm long, shorter than the subtending bract, spreading in flower and recurved in fruiting stage; sepals scarcely connate, the lobes linear-triangular, 2.5-4 mm long, spreading to recurved; petals white or pink tinged purple, 6-9 mm long, tubular but split along the upper side, the linear-lanceolate lobes spreading to recurved, hairy on the inside and on the filaments.

Fruit broadly ellipsoid to globose, 4-8 mm long; seeds ellipsoid, c. 1 mm long, pitted.

	Habit and anther column
Image source: fig. 625a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 630.

Distribution:  Usually in heavy soil in moist depressions or sometimes associated with irrigated pastures.   Qld; N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: mainly Jan. — April.

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

Biology: Suspected of stock poisoning but rarely browsed.

Author: Not yet available