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Scientific Name
Synonyms
Family
Common Names
Origin
Naturalised Distribution
Notes
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habit (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)

close-up of hairy stem and paired leaves (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)

flowers (Photo: Jackie Miles and Max Campbell)

close-up of flower (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)

Oxypetalum coeruleum

Scientific Name

Oxypetalum coeruleum (D. Don) Decne.

Synonyms

Oxypetalum caeruleum (D. Don) Decne.
Tweedia caerulea D. Don
Tweedia coerulea D. Don
Tweedia versicolor Hook.

Family

Asclepiadaceae (Victoria, the ACT, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory)
Apocynaceae (Queensland and New South Wales)

Common Names

blue flowered milkweed, blue milkweed, milkweed, silkpods, southern star, star flower, tweedia

Origin

Native to South America (i.e. Brazil and Uruguay).

Naturalised Distribution

Naturalised is some parts of eastern Australia (i.e. occasionally in south-eastern Queensland, widely naturalised in eastern New South Wales, and sparingly naturalised in Victoria).

Notes

Tweedia (Oxypetalum coeruleum) is listed as a priority environmental weed in at least one Natural Resource Management region.