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Botanical Name:Eryngium vesiculosum
Common Name:prickfoot , prostrate blue devil
Sold As:Tube ($2.00)
Plant
Type(s):
Ground Cover (up to 30 cm)
Growing
Conditions:
Full Sun, Partial Shade
Moist, Wet, Boggy, Poorly Drained
Size
(HxW):
20 cm x 60 cm
Foliage:Stiff bright green lance-shaped leaves with long spiny teeth, blade 2-15 cm long, stalk of equal length.
Flowers:Small pale blue egg-shaped to round flowerheads of small flowers on stalks 1-3 cm long, rising from base of tuft and from leaf axils, bracts from base of flowerhead longer than flowerhead. October-February
General
Comments:
Bog garden or container. Prostrate tufting perennial or short-lived herb. An interesting little plant for bog gardens and beside water areas, where the roots do not dry out.


Further
Information:
  1. Whitehorse Council
  2. Yarra Ranges Council (Victora, close to us)
  3. Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (VICFLORA, technical, good photos)
  4. Grasslands
  5. NatureMapr (Canberra)
  6. Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew UK, technical)


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