Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Kings Park Botanic Gardens, Perth, WA

Flowering plants. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Kings Park Botanic Gardens, Perth, WA

Flowering plants. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary.

Common Name

Flannel Cudweed; Cotton Weed; Camel Dung

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Annual forb, prostrate.  Leaves clustered at the base of the plant and alternating along the stems.  Leaves 0.3-1.3cm long, 1.5-5mm wide, flat, hairy, edges smooth.  Flower heads white or cream to yellow, with 0 petals, broad cylindrical to broad oval to broad cup-shaped.

Description and photo of flowering plant in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 711

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