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infestation (Photo: Trevor James)

habit (Photo: Trevor James)

leaves (Photo: Trevor James)

close-up of stem with sticky hairs (Photo: Trevor James)

flowers and leafy floral bracts (Photo: Trevor James)

close-up of flowers, with three lower petal lobes and a hooded upper petal lobe (Photo: Trevor James)

Parentucellia viscosa

Scientific Name

Parentucellia viscosa (L.) Caruel

Synonyms

Bartschia viscosa L.
Bartsia viscosa L.

Family

Scrophulariaceae

Common Names

sticky bartsia, sticky parentucellia, tarweed, yellow bartsia, yellow glandweed

Origin

Native to western and southern Europe.

Naturalised Distribution

Widely naturalised is southern Australia (i.e. in some parts of eastern New South Wales, in Victoria and Tasmania, in south-eastern South Australia, and in south-western Western Australia).

Also naturalised in the USA (i.e. California, Oregon, Washington, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi) and Hawaii.

Notes

Yellow bartsia (Parentucellia viscosa) is regsrded as an environmental weed in Victoria and Western Australia.