Samolus repens is a species of water pimpernel native to Australia, New Zealand and adjacent Pacific islands, and South America (South Chile), where it is common in temperate and subtropic coastlines. This species has small white or occasionally pink flowers with a flowering period from September through to March or April. Its common name is Creeping Bushweed.

Synonyms

The species was first described by Georg Forster

Georg Forster

Johann Georg Adam Forster was a German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his father on several scientific expeditions, including James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific...

 in 1776 and placed in the genus Samolus in 1805 by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon. The following synonyms exist:

• Lysimachia sedoides Lehm.
• Samolus ambiguus R.Brown
• S. eremaeus Jacobs
• S. littoralis R.Brown
• S. platyphyllos F.Muell.
• S. repens var. ambiguus (R.Brown) Benth.
• S. repens var. incana (Labill.) Duby in DC
• S. repens var. floribundus Benth.
• S. repens var. paucifolius Benth.
• S. repens var. procumbens Knuth
• S. repens var. strictus Cock.
• Sheffieldia repens Forst.

External links

• Online Field Guide to Common Saltmarsh Plants of Queensland