Family: Asteraceae
Vittadinia cuneata
Citation:
DC., Prod. 5:281 (1836).
Synonymy: V. triloba sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 595 (1929), partly, non DC.
Common name: Fuzzweed, woolly New Holland daisy.
Description:
More or less woody annual or perennial herb 10-40 cm high; stems rigidly erect, branched; vestiture strigose, hirsute, or rarely fine and soft, with glandular and non-glandular hairs; leaves subconduplicate, narrow-cuneate to spathulate or oblanceolate, with attenuate bases, 1-2.5 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, entire or with 2 small lateral lobes; apices apiculate, recurved.
Involucres 5-8 mm long; bracts linear, acute to acuminate, with vestiture as the leaves; ray florets 2- or 3-seriate, pale-blue to mauve.
Achene flattened, linear-cuneate to oblanceolate, 4-7 mm long; marginal ridges thin, pubescent; faces with ribs all extending to the summit, uniformly pubescent with fine non-glandular hairs; glandular hairs few; pappus bristles multiseriate, barbellate, 4-8 mm long.
Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: No flowering time is available |
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Biology:
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