Citation: Caruel in Parl., Fl. ltal. 6:480 (1885).

Synonymy: Euphrasia latifolia L., Sp. Pl. 604 (1753); Bartsia latifolia (L.)Sibth. & Smith, Fl. Graec. Prodr. 6:69, t. 586 (1827), cited 'Bartschia', an orthographic variant, by some authors.

Common name: Red bartsia, common bartsia.

Description:
Slender erect annual 5-30 cm high, covered by soft glandular and stiff eglandular hairs, simple or with a few ascending branches produced from the lower nodes; leaves ovate to broad-ovate, 3-15 x 2-7 mm, serrate, the upper ones with 2 rarely 3 pairs of teeth.

Racemes dense, with a few to many subsessile flowers; calyx tubular, c. 6-7 mm long, elongating to 8-10 mm long in fruit, the tube about twice the length of the lobes, finely longitudinally ribbed; corolla about a third longer than the calyx, 8-10 mm long along the upper side, persistent on capsules, red-purple with the inner face of the lobes pink, rarely white throughout, with a slender tube and very short narrow upper and lower lips; anthers yellow.

Capsule narrowly ovoid-ellipsoid, as long as the calyx, glabrous; seeds c. 0.25-0.35 mm long, smooth, brown.

	Habit, leaf and flower.
Image source: fig. 599A in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Burbidge & Gray (1970) Flora of A.C.T., fig. 332; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 600.

Distribution:  In open scrub vegetation or usually in disturbed or overgrazed moist or marshy localities with soils varying from sandy to clayey.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.   Native to the Mediterranean region. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Aug. — Nov., Jan.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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