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habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

habit (Photo: Jackie Miles and Max Campbell)

creeping stem rooting at the joints (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

lower leaves (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

flowers and fruit (Photo: Jackie Miles and Max Campbell)

close-up of flower (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

leaves and immature fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

Samolus valerandi

Scientific Name

Samolus valerandi L.

Family

Primulaceae (Victoria, the ACT, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory)
Samolaceae (Queensland)
Theophrastaceae (New South Wales)

Common Names

brookweed, common brookweed, seaside brookweed, water pimpernel

Origin

This species is native to large parts of the world (i.e. Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas). It is also considered to be native to large parts of eastern Australia (i.e. south-eastern Queensland, eastern New South Wales, the ACT and eastern Victoria).

Naturalised Distribution

Naturalised in the coastal districts of south-western Western Australia.

Notes

Brookweed (Samolus valerandi) is regarded as an environmental weed in Western Australia.