Round-leaf Wilsonia

Scientific Name:	Wilsonia rotundifolia	Round-leaf Wilsonia plants Photo: A J Brown
Status:	Native to Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria.
Plant Description:	Small perennial herb with prostrate or slightly ascending much-branched mat-forming stems. Leaves alternate, flat and rather thick, round or ovate, 1.5-4 mm long, shortly stalked and crowded together, entire, at first covered with loose spreading hairs which later fall with maturity. Flowers white or yellow with 5 spreading lanceolate lobes which are slightly longer than the tubular calyx, silky-hairy, about 5 mm long. Fruit is an ovoid one-celled capsule, enclosed by the longer, persistent calyx, containing one (or sometimes two) glossy black to dull brown seeds. Flowering in spring-early summer.
Habitat:	Mainly occurs on grey clay soils in low lying country but also on lake margins, saline marshes and brackish swamps.
Comment:	In highly saline situations, plants are generally very small and stunted, though still relatively healthy.

Round-leaf Wilsonia flower Photo: A J Brown	Round-leaf Wilsonia fruit Photo: A J Brown	Round-leaf Wilsonia flowering Photo: A J Brown
Round-leaf Wilsonia mature root system Photo: A J Brown	Round-leaf Wilsonia spent flowers Photo: A J Brown	Round-leaf Wilsonia flower Photo: A J Brown