Scientific Name: Gratiola nana

Common Name: matted brooklime

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Plantaginaceae

Form Description: Perennial herb with stems creeping, branches intertangled; procumbent or tips ascending.

Flowers: Flowers pale pink, veins sometimes deeper in colour; solitary, axillary on short stems.

Fruit: Capsule – seeds are numerous, small, reticulate.

Municipality
Break O’DayBurnieCentral HighlandsClarenceDerwent ValleyDorsetFlindersGeorge TownGlamorgan-Spring BayGlenorchyHuon ValleyKentishKing IslandLatrobeLauncestonMeander ValleyNorthern MidlandsSouthern MidlandsWaratah-WynyardWest CoastWest Tamar
Plant Communities
Alpine and Sub-alpine VegetationRiparianSedgeland and Wetland
Habitat Notes

Local in swampy ground, from sea level to mountain plateaux.

Site Tolerance

Moist, Waterlogged

Soil Tolerance

Nutrient-poor, Poorly-drained

Propagation Calendar

  • Flowering Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Seed Collecting Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Sowing Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Cutting Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Propagation Method
Cuttings, Division

Seed Information

Cutting & Division Information

Usually grown from cuttings or by division of creeping rootstock.