Flowering November-December. Very local distribution in northern Tasmania, on hills each side of the Tamar.
Tas endemic. Information courtesy of the Launceston Field Naturalists Club.
| PIMELEA FILIFORMIS
Thymelaeaceae
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| A prostrate or scrambling plant forming
small flat clumps, bearing clustered pale pink flowers on very slender
stems. Bark light brown to grey. leaves narrow-elliptical, light green,
paler underneath, 6-12 mm long. Flowers in clusters of 6-9, each flower
tubular 5 mm long with one stamen only. Flower tubes and buds deep pink.
Fruit dry. Flowering November-December. Very local distribution in northern Tasmania, on hills each side of the Tamar. Tas endemic. Information courtesy of the Launceston Field Naturalists Club. |
CALOCEPHALUS LACTEUS Asteraceae Milky Beautyheads 
Sprawling grassland daisy forming dense grey-green mats with aromatic foliage. Leaves linear with blunt tip, sticky, both surfaces covered in grey woolly hairs. Flowers forming milky white dense balls on upright flowering stems, individually tiny yellowish flowers only visible when fully open. |
GERANIUM POTENTILLOIDES Geraniaceae Mountain cranesbill 
One of three in this group of delicate groundcovers (potentilloides, retrorsum, solanderi), potentilloides has leaves like Potentilla, cinquefoil and is a montane plant although it also occurs at lower altitudes. Leaves are dissected into 3-7 lobes, not cut to the base like the other two. Flowers are solitary and very pale pink to white. Flowering in spring. |
