Narrow-leaf Wilsonia

Scientific Name:	Wilsonia backhousei	Narrow-leaf Wilsonia plant Photo: A J Brown
Status:	Native to Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, Tasmania and Victoria.
Plant Description:	Small, hairless, perennial herb or subshrub with prostrate branches to 15 cm tall. Leaves without stalks, linear-lanceolate to linear-obovate, 5-15 mm long, 1-3 mm wide and fleshy. Flowers white with tubes 10 mm long and short triangular lobes or teeth 2-4 mm long. Fruit is a capsule about 3 mm long. Flowering in spring-summer but often not prolifically.
Habitat:	Mainly occurs on heavy soils in coastal saltmarshes and around the edges of inland salt lakes.
Comments:	Often quite stunted and few branched and somewhat reddish or yellowish under extreme saline and drying conditions.

Narrow-leaf Wilsonia - leaves and flowers
Photo: A J Brown

Narrow-leaf Wilsonia leaves
Photo: A J Brown

Narrow-leaf Wilsonia - flowers
Photo: A J Brown