Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Centipeda cunninghamii
Common name
Common sneezeweed
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Damp sites and along streams, usually subject to flooding. Western Slopes, tablelands, and the ACT. Occasionally coast and ranges.
Notes
Upright perennial herb to 0.3 m tall. Occasionally annual in adverse conditions. Stems hairless, rarely woolly. Does not produce roots from prostrate stems (if they are present). Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 0.6-3 cm long, 2.5-7 mm wide, hairy, becoming hairless, sometimes resin dotted, margins toothed to almost entire. Flower heads 4-8 mm in diameter, with many florets, biconvex, or hemispherical (convex above), to almost globular, stalkless, usually single. 'Seeds' 1.2-2 mm long, with 4 prominent ribs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), and without bristles. Flowers mostly Spring to Autumn.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Centipeda~cunninghamii (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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