Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Packsaddle Creek, N of Broken Hill NSW

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Packsaddle Creek, N of Broken Hill NSW

Common Name

Spreading Cup-flower, Spreading Angianthus

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Annual forb to 15cm tall or sprawling. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1-3cm long, 1-6mm wide, somewhat club shaped to linear to flat, sparsely to densely hairy. Flowers with 0 petals. Flower heads cylindrical, yellow to brownish, borne singly at the ends of the stems. Vulnerable Vic.

Description and photo in GM Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and JH Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales pages 708-709

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