Flowering plant. Photo: Don Wood, south coast, NSW

Flower. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Scottsdale Bush Heritage Reserve near Bredbo, NSW

Flower and spent flower. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Scottsdale Bush Heritage Reserve near Bredbo, NSW

Seed head. Photo: John Tann, Dargo, Vic

Common Name

Catsear; Flatweed; Deep-rooted Catsear, Rooted Catsear, Wet-the-Bed

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Introduced perennial forb to 80cm tall.  Leaves in a rosette at the base of the plant, 3-25cm long, 10-50mm wide, flat, rough hairy, rarely hairless, edges lobed and toothed or with slightly wavy margins.  Flowers yellow, with many ‘petals’.  Flower heads broad cylindrical, borne singly or in open groups of a few flowers on a stem arising from the base of the plant.

Description in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 716

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