Flowering plant. Photo: Russell Best, Murray-Sunset National Park, Vic

Flowering plant. Photo: James Booth, Murray-Sunset National Park

Common Name

Rabbit Tails

Family

Amaranthaceae

Notes

Perennial forb to 30cm tall or prostrate.  Leaves clustered at the base of the plant and alternating along the stems.  Leaves 2-15cm long, to 30mm wide, flat, hairy when young.  Flowers greenish, wwith white hairs on the outside, tubular, with 5 'petals'.  Flower heads oval to spherical, solitary at the ends of the stems.

Description in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 289

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