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Family:  Stylidiaceae

Flowering Period:  September to December 

Distribution:  Widespread and quite common, in open forest.  It is often found in poor soil and around rocky outcrops. 

Comments:  Triggerplants are small herbs with a tuft of leaves at the base and pink flowers borne on long stalks.

The stamen and stigma on a triggerplant flower are joined together and held behind the flower.  The weight of an insect landing on the flower 'triggers' the stamen/stigma to move over the insect and touch it, depositing pollen on the insect and collecting it if it already has some.  The device will fire several times.
Triggerplant (Stylidium graminifolium)

Triggerplants growing above Budgary Creek.

 

Triggerplant flowers showing the trigger mechanism.

 

Triggerplant growing on ridge above Du Faur Creek.

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