Common Name

Wingwort

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Annual forb to 15cm tall.  Leaves at the base of the plant and/or alternating along the stems, 0.5-1.8cm long, 1-4mm wide, flat, hairy, with pointed tips.  Flower heads tiny (less than 3mm across), yellow, with 3-5 florets each with a minute 'petal'. Flower heads single at the ends of the stems.  Rare SA.  Rare Vic.

Description in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 672

PlantNET article with line drawings:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ceratogyne~obionoides

Line drawing in Hooker’s Icones Plantarum, vol. 9: t. 855 (1852) www.plantillustrations.org