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Scientific Name

Ourisia integrifolia

Family Name

SCROPHULARIACEAE

Common Name

Mountain Whitebell

Status

Height

10-12cm

Flowers

1 or 2 flowers, white or pale bluish-purple, 10-16mm in diameter, borne on erect flowering stems.

Fruit

Capsule

Form

Small, smooth perennial herb with short, prostrate branches stems and opposite, rounded, somewhat thick leaves.

Municipalities

Break O'Day; Central Highlands; Derwent Valley; Glenorchy; Hobart; Huon Valley; Kentish; Launceston; Meander Valley; Northern Midlands; West Coast

Communities

Habitat Notes

Moist, shaded places on mountains, in the north and east. Sometimes between rocks beside creeks.

Site Tolerance

Frost Tolerance

Hardy

Soil Tolerance

General Notes

Probably propagated from seed. Suitable below powerlines.

Propagation Details

Propagation Calendar

Flowering Months

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Seed Collecting Months

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Sowing Months

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Cutting Months

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Seed Information

Seed Collection

Seed Treatment Method

Seed Storage Life

Viable Seeds Per Gram

Seed Treatment Notes

Germination Time

Suitable for Direct Seeding

Cuttings

Expected Time to Take Root

Expected Time to Plant Out

Propagation by Division N.B. Transplant only from nearby to avoid disease.

Cutting Notes