Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Actinobole uliginosum

Common name

Flannel Cudweed, Cotton Weed

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Grassy areas and bare ground. Western Slopes.

Notes

Annual herb, prostrate, stemless, or stems to 10 cm long, woolly, grey-brown to grey-green. Leaves clustered at the base of the plant and alternating along the stems, 0.3-1.3 cm long, 1.5-5 mm wide, woolly, margins entire. Flower heads white or cream to yellow, about 5–10 mm high, 6–18 mm in diameter, compound, of 1–12 partial heads, each with with about 30–60 florets, 0 petals. Compound flower heads broad cylindrical to broad oval or broad cup-shaped, solitary.

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Actinobole~uliginosum   (accessed 18 April, 2021)