Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, W of Mulwala, NSW

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Lyn Allison, Melbourne, Vic

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, south coast, NSW

Common Name

Lesser Joyweed

Family

Amaranthaceae

Notes

Annual forb, prostrate or to 30cm tall.  Leaves opposite each other, 2-6cm long, to 8mm wide, flat to linear, hairless or sparsely hairy, with entire to finely toothed edges.  Flowers whitish, small (less than 3mm across) in chaffy round or oblong clusters at the bases of the leaves.

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 281

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