Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Alternanthera sp. A

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Cowra

Flowering plant. Photographer Don Wood, Black Mountain, Canberra, ACT

Flowering plants. Photographer Don Wood, Black Mountain, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Plains joyweed

Family

Amaranthaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, grassy areas, disturbed sites, and near water. Mainly in the ACT. Sporadic on the tablelands and Western Slopes, and in the Sydney region.

Notes

Prostrate perennial herb to 0.05 m high. Stems to about 15 cm long, sparsely hairy. Leaves opposite each other, 0.5-5 cm long, 2-8 mm wide, almost hairless, margins sometimes with minute teeth. Flowers 2–8 mm long, white to creamy yellow or pinkish, with 5 chaffy 'petals', in globular to oval heads to 10 mm long and 5 mm wide. Heads often clustered. Flowers mostly Nov-Jan in the ACT.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

Full name is Alternanthera sp. A Flora of NSW (M.Gray 5187) J. Palmer

Alternanthera sp. 1 in VICFLORA.

Data deficient Vic.

PlantNETdescription:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Alternanthera~sp.+A+Flora+of+New+South+Wales+%28M.Gray+5187%29 (accessed 3 January, 2021)