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

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

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, between Hillston and Booligal, NSW

Common Name

Smooth Minuria

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Perennial forb to 60cm tall, becoming woody at the base.  Leaves mostly alternating up the stems, 1-5cm long, 1-9mm wide, flat, hairless, margins often slightly toothed, with a straight pointed tip.  Flowers with many white, mauve, or purple 'petals' and a yellow centre. Flower heads bell-shaped, borne in loose groups at the ends of the stems.  Rare Vic.

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

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