Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 807 (1753) subsp. foetida.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Stinking hawksbeard, foetid hawksbeard.

Description:
Annual herb 10-50 cm high, sometimes persisting as a biennial with a woody tap root; stems erect, densely divaricate-branched, glandular-pubescent, striate; basal leaves oblanceolate, obtuse to acute, attenuate at the base, 4-13 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, denticulate to runcinate-pinnatisect with denticulate margins, scabrous, usually forming a rosette; cauline leaves elliptic to narrowly lanceolate, amplexicaul with acuminate auricles, progressively reduced to linear bracts c. 1 cm long.

Capitula 1-3 terminating each branch, on peduncles 1-9 cm long, with 1 or 2 minute bracteoles; involucres 9-12 mm long, 5-7 mm diam.; outer bracts unequal, up to half as long as the inner ones, narrowly lanceolate, loosely appressed; inner bracts dull-green, slightly tomentose and with large glandular hairs, glabrous on the inner face, entire; receptacle hairy; florets 25-50; ligules narrowly oblong, 6-9 mm long, reddish below.

Marginal achenes fusiform, slightly curved, 12-18-ribbed, 7-9 mm long, glabrous, dark-brown, beakless or shortly beaked; inner achenes similar, 12-17 mm long, including a filiform beak 6-10 mm long; pappus bristles 2-seriate, 5-7 mm long, subequal, cream, persistent.

Published illustration: Ross-Craig (1962) Drawings Brit. Pl. 17:t. 31.

Distribution:  Localised on roadsides, paddocks, gardens and other disturbed sites.   W. Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.   Native to Europe and south-western Asia. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Nov. — Dec.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

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