Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Centipeda minima subsp. minima

Common name

Spreading sneezeweed

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Disturbed sites, damp places, swampy ground, stream banks, and in water. Widespread.

Notes

Annual herb, occasionally perennial, prostrate or to 0.2 m tall, rarely rooting from the lower nodes, more or less hairless to woolly or cottony. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating along the stems, sometimes almost opposite each other, 0.3-2.7 cm long, 1-11 mm wide, with scattered resin dots, margins entire or toothed, tips pointed or blunt. Flower heads 1.5-4 mm in diameter, with many florets, 0 petals, almost globular, or hemispherical with a domed top, stalkless, usually single. Flowers mainly Spring to Summer.

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Centipeda~minima (accessed 7 January, 2021)