Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, east of Rankin Springs, NSW

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, east of Rankin Springs, NSW

Common Name

Golden Sunray

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Annual forb to 20cm tall or sprawling. Leaves alternating  up the stems, 0.3-1.6cm long, less than 1mm wide, cylindrical, sparsely hairy to hairless, tips blunt. Flower heads yellow, with many 'petals'. Flower heads bell- or funnel-shaped becoming hemispherical, borne singly at the end of the stems.

Description and photo (as Helipterum hyalospermum) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 695

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