Scientific Name: Stylidium armeria subsp. armeria

Common Name: broadleaf triggerplant

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Stylidiaceae

Form Description: Perennial herb growing in tufts. Leaves in a dense basal rosette.

Height (m): 0.05 – 0.5

Flowers: A long spike of pink to magenta flowers; small white projection at the throat. Flower has trigger action.

Fruit: Capsule – cylindrical 8–15 mm long. Seeds reddish-brown 1–2 mm.

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Plant Communities
Dry Eucalypt ForestHeath
Habitat Notes

Widespread and locally common in open woodlands, heaths and shrubberies, nearer coastal area, extending to higher altitudes inland.

General Notes

Unpredictable in the garden – best treated as an annual.

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Propagation Method
Seed

Seed Information