''Wahlenbergia multicaulis'' is a small herbaceous plant in the family ''
Campanulaceae
The family Campanulaceae (also bellflower family), of the order Asterales, contains nearly 2400 species in 84 genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and rarely small trees, often with milky sap. Among them are several familiar garden plants belo ...
'' native to Australia (all states except Queensland and the Northern Territory).
The slender, erect to ascending perennial herb typically grows to a height of . It blooms between September and February producing blue flowers.
In Western Australia, the species is found on the edges of swamps and creek beds and on hillsides in the
Wheatbelt and
South West
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regions where it grows in sandy-loamy-clay soils over
granite
Granite () is a coarse-grained ( phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies under ...
or
laterite.
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References
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multicaulis
Eudicots of Western Australia
Plants described in 1837
Endemic flora of Western Australia