Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Argyrotegium fordianum
Common name
Alpine cudweed
Family
Asteraceaae
Where found
Open heath, herbfields and grassland, and along streams. Often on bare patches. ACT, the mountains to the west, and Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Creeping and tufted perennial herb to 0.2 m high, rooting from the nodes. Stems woolly, with the dried remains of old leaves at the base. Leaves basal and alternating along the stems, 1.5–4 cm long, 5–10 mm wide, both surfaces silvery-hairy and hairless at the tip, bases narrowed and stem-clasping, tips a with minute mucro. Flower heads about 7-8 mm long, with many oval-cylindrical florets, about 5-15 in each cluster, and 0 petals. Bracts surrounding the flower heads 5.5-8 mm long, shining, green-brown at the base, pale at the tip, red-tinged in between. Flowering: Dec.–Mar.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Argyrotegium~fordianum (accessed 3 January, 2021)
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