Flowering plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near Hyden, WA

Flowering plants. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Ground Heads

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Annual forb, prostrate, reduced to a flower head surrounded by a basal rosette of leaves.  Leaves 0.6-3cm long, 1.5-4mm wide, flat, hairy, edges smooth.  Flowers yellow to white, with 0 petals.  Flower heads flattened globular.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 711

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Chthonocephalus~pseudevax