Common Name

Common Sunray; Pygmy Daisy

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Annual forb 2-12cm tall or prostrate. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5-3cm long, 1-4mm wide, linear to flat, with scattered hairs, and entire edges. Flowers yellow, with many ‘petals’. Flower heads cup-shaped to almost globular, borne singly or in groups of 2-3 at the ends of the stems.

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

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