Barleria lancifolia

Description

Barleria lancifolia is an ideal plant to cover the hot bare sunny patches in your garden. Barleria lancifolia is an unarmed 'bushy' perennial herb up to 50 mm high. The leaves are lanceolate to ovate, simple and opposite. Young leaves and stems are covered with short soft white waxy hair. The petiole (leaf stalk) is very short. Flowers are solitary in the leaf axils. The corolla (flower petals) is -lipped. The upper lip is 4-lobed and the lower lip entire. Flower colour varies from light to dark mauve to white. The corolla tube is greenish. Two leaf-like structures, the bracts, surround the flower. Flowering time is from February to June.