Common Name

Dwarf Jo-jo, Button Burweed

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Introduced annual forb, prostrate. Leaves basal, with sheathing bases, 4-13cm long, 10-40mm wide, flat, carrot-like, dissected, sparsely hairy, more hairy near the base. Flower heads greenish, with 0 petals, more or less globular, stalkless, forming dense clusters in the centre of the plant. Burrs composed of many seeds, each seed hairy at the top with a spine 2-3mm long.

Description in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 669

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