Flowers. Photo: Curtis Clark, Arizona, USA

Flowers and leaves. Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, Hawaii, USA

Plant. Photo: Don Wood, Carnarvon Station Bush Heritage Reserve, via Augathella, Qld

Common Name

Crownbeard

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Introduced annual forb to 1.6m tall. Stems becoming woody at the base. Lower leaves opposite each other, upper leaves alternating up the stems. Leaves with basal lobes, 4-10cm long, 10-40mm wide, flat, hairy, edges toothed to deeply lobed, with pointed tips. Flowers yellow, with 12-15 'petals'. Flower heads below the 'petals' hemispherical, borne singly or in loose groups of 2-6 at the ends of the stems.  Verbesina encelioides ssp. encelioides in NSW.

Description and photo in GM Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 680

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=in&name=Verbesina~encelioides+subsp.~encelioides

Weeds of Australia Biosecurity Queensland Edition description:  http://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/03030800-0b07-490a-8d04-0605030c0f01/media/Html/Verbesina_encelioides.htm