Flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

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

Common Name

Bush Minuria

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Perennial forb to 1.2m tall, woody at the base.  Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5-4cm long, 1-3mm wide, linear, hairless, with a straight point.  Flowers white, pink or mauve, with many ‘petals’.  Flower heads oval, borne singly at the tops of the stems. It often grows through other shrubs.  Rare Vic.

Description (page 645) and photo (page 646) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales

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