Common Name

Creeping Millotia

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Annual forb to 15cm tall or prostrate.  Leaves alternating up the stems, with small basal lobes, 0.5-2.5cm long, less than 1mm wide, linear to threadlike, hairy, often sticky.  Flowers tiny (less than 3mm across), green with yellow tips, and 0 petals.  Flower heads cylindrical, borne singly at the ends of the stems.

Description and photo (as Millotia greevesii ssp. greevesii var. greevesii) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 705

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

Flowering plants. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW