Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, between Hillston and Goolgowi, NSW

Flowering plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, between Hillston and Goolgowi, NSW

Common Name

Common White Sunray, Large White Sunray

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Annual forb to 40cm tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, or the lowermost almost opposite each other.  Leaves 1-4cm long, to 2.5mm wide, flat to linear, hairless to hairy, slightly sticky, with margins turned down, and a blunt tip.  Flowers with many white papery 'petals' and yellow centres.  Flower heads hemispherical, borne singly or in open groups at the ends of the stems. Endangered Vic.

Description and photo (as Helipterum floribundum) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales pages 692-693.

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