Citation: Hook. f., London J. Bot. 6:463 (1847).

Synonymy: Asperula conferta, Asperula gunnii, Asperula scoparia

Common name: Water woodruff.

Description:
Perennial with herbaceous branches up to 30 cm long, little to moderately branched, decumbent to prostrate; stems quadrangular, usually glabrous but sometimes finely denticulate along the ridges; leaves and stipules about equal, in whorls of 4, linear or linear-lanceolate, 4-8 mm long, acute and rarely with a short terminal hair, glabrous except for the denticulate margin and mid-vein on the undersurface, erect to spreading.

Inflorescence a terminal dichasium with 3-5 flowers; corolla white.

Fruit c. 2 mm long, deeply 2-lobed but usually not breaking apart.

Distribution:  growing around swampy areas. S.Aust.: SE.   Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Nov. — Dec.

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

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