- Taxon
- Weed
Habitat: bank, clay, dry, loam, lowland, margin, open, pasture, ridge, riparian, roadside, shrubland, silt, wasteland
Dispersal: Seed
Recognition
- a bushy subshrub up to 2 m high with green stems.
- its leaves are clustered in whorls of up to 6 and are up to 12 cm long, green, and toothed on the margin.
- its flowers (up to 6.5 cm across) are solitary in the leaf axils among the upper-most leaves.
- the flower petals are pink and 2.5-3 cm long and notched at the tip.
Images
References
Howell, C. 2008: Consolidated list of environmental weeds in New Zealand. DOC Research & Development Series 292: 42.
