Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near West Wyalong, NSW

Plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Nombinnie Nature Reserve, NSW

Carpet. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near West Wyalong, NSW

Common Name

Ascending Sunray

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Annual forb to 30cm tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5-1.2cm long, 1-3mm wide, linear, sparsely rough hairy, slightly sticky, sparsely gland dotted, margins entire, with pointed tips. Flowers with many yellow or white 'petals' and yellow centres. Flower heads hemispherical, borne singly at the ends of the stems.

Description (page 694) and photo (page 695) (as Helipterum diffusum) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales

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