Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Abrotanella nivigena
Common name
Snow-wort
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Alpine grassland, herbfields and boggy areas. Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.07 m high, prostrate, mat-forming. Leaves fleshy. Stems hairless. Leaves crowded, 0.5-1.5 cm long, 1–2 mm wide, linear, tips blunt, bases sheathing. About 12-15 green petal-like bracts surrounding each flower head, each 3-3.5 mm long. Flower heads single, 3-3.5 mm long, with 11-29 florets with white or white and purple lobes, and 0 petals. Flowering: summer.
Endangered Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Abrotanella~nivigena (accessed 29 April 2021)
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