Gratiola sexdentata
Photo: Matt Salmond
- Scientific Name
- Gratiola sexdentata
- Type
- Native
- Plant Life-form Type
- Marginal sprawling
- Taxonomy
- A. Cunn.
- Presence
- North and South Island
- Habitat
- Wet, silty margins of lakes, rivers and ponds
- Temperature (°C)
- up to 28
- Hardness (ppm)
- Hardy
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Propagation
- Stem cuttings
- Features
- G. sexdenata is a glabrous herb with sparingly brnached stems that ascending from a prostrate base. Ranging in height from 3 to 10 cm on damp ground and up to 50 cm when aquatic. The leaves are dark to bright green, sessile and ovate, ca 6 by 10 mm in size with entire with toothed margins (triangular teeth). The flowers are yellow-white with a yellow throat and are ca 10 mm long.
- Source
- TIFBIS