Mat-lampranthus
Lampranthus tegens
Animal-friendly
Growth features
Aspect
Flowering
- orange
- pink
Mat-forming perennial, seldom higher than 20 mm.Branches procumbent, the central branch elongating, and longer than the shorter side branches, rooting at the nodes. Main branch up to about 6 mm in diameter, terete, grey-brown, the younger branches somewhat flattened, orange-brown. The internodes on the elongating branches about 20 mm apart. The lateral branches with leaves crowded and internodes very short and not visible, the tips often decumbent.
Flowering branches ascending. Leaves ascending-spreading opposite, connate at the base, sub-falcate, glaucous, about 10 mm long, triquetrous, about 2.0-3.5 mm in diameter, the apex acute. Leaves on lateral branches 6-7 × 2.5 mm. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils, on slender petioles, 10 to 22 mm in diameter, pink. Flowering time is late spring (October to November).