Swamp Isotome - a native (Isotoma fluviatilis)

Family: Campanulaceae (Bluebell family).

Native to the Eastern States of Australia.

Occurrence: Swamp Isotome grows on damp flats e.g. mud flats beside dams or in seasonally wet paddocks. It may be abundant.

Identification:

• the starry flowers are pale blue, with 5 narrow triangular lobes at the end of a tube
• the base of the flower is often marked with yellow or blue
• the flowers are on slender stalks
• the plant is prostrate perennial, and flowers in summer.

Similar Native Species: Some of the pratias and lobelias grow in similar damp situations, but are less common.