Araliaceae Trachymene Wildflowers

Blue Lace Flower

Sharon G — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 05:23:00 GMT

Photos taken on New Years Day 2015, flowers at the end of their season. Flowers blue/white/purple, Oct to Dec or Jan to Mar. Erect annual or biennial, herb, 0.1-2 m high. Sand, loam, granite, laterite, limestone, ironstone.
Family: Araliaceae Genus: Trachymene Species: coerulea Main Flower Colour: Other

Wild Parsley, wild parsnip

Member - John and Val — Sat, 21 Jun 2014 03:39:00 GMT

A splash of colour in the desert - erect annual herb to 60 cm high, sometimes with a perennial rootstock; smooth stems sparingly branched. Leaves mostly towards the base of the plant, 3–5-lobed or deeply dissected. Flowers are bisexual or male, arranged in globular heads. Petals 1.6–1.9 mm long, blue turning white.
Family: Araliaceae Genus: Trachymene Species: glaucifolia Main Flower Colour: Mauve

Wild Parsnip

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:35:00 GMT

Erect annual herb to 60 cm high, sometimes with a perennial rootstock; stems sparingly branched, glabrous. Leaves mostly towards the base of the plant, 3–5-lobed to dissected, lamina ovate in outline, 2–5 cm long, 3–5 cm wide; segments linear to elliptic, 1–7 mm wide; glabrous to sparsely hairy; petiole 3.5–10.5 c, long. Umbels 10–25 mm diam. in flower, 20–30 mm diam. in fruit, 80–120 flowered; peduncle 2–12 cm long with glandular hairs at the base, subtended by leaf-like bracts becoming sessile and tri-fid. Bracts 15–18, 4–9 mm long. Flowers bisexual or male. Petals 1.6–1.9 mm long, blue turning white. Ovary unilocular, glabrous or glandular hairy. Fruit semicircular, 4.5–5.5 mm long, brown; consisting of only one mericarp. Mericarps 3.9–5.5 mm wide, weakly to strongly papillate; the papillae terminated by glandular trichomes, often breaking off.
Family: Araliaceae Genus: Trachymene Species: glaucifolia Main Flower Colour: White