Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.51677 172.645022
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, St Albans, 115 Packe Street
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 58/04
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
16 May 2004
Start date:
2004-05-16
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Front of garden border.
Notes:
Perennial sprawling herb with thick, elongated, prostrate stems. Leaves prominently veined, indented above and raised beneath. Flowers ± all summer and autumn, ± erect. Pedicels and calyx with simple patent hairs. Petals c. 2 x 1.1-1.2 cm, broad obovate, bright pink with faint whitish veins, emarginate. Anthers and stigmas very pale mauve-pink; latter curling over when fully mature. Seeds very minutely alveolate. Scattered spontaneous plants in various places in garden. Originally planted nearby to this mature plant.