Pink Bells - native (Tetratheca ciliata)

Family: Tremandraceae.

Other names: Black-eyed Susan.

Occurrence.A: a common bushland plant.

Recognise:

• it is a small spreading shrublet
• the leaves are almost as broad as long, and are often in groups of three
• it has showy mauve-pink flowers that hang down on short stalks from the leaf bases
• the stamens are black (and hence "Black-eyed").

tetra: four, theke: box, referring to the four-lobed anthers.

Photos 1 and 3: Muckleford Forest. 2: Eureka. Most of the leaves are in threes.