Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Dysphania multifida

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, south of Tharwa, ACT

Stems with mature seed cases. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, south of Tharwa, ACT

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, south of Tharwa, ACT

Line drawings (as Chenopodium multifidum). l. leaf; seed case. M Moir, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board 

Common name

Scented goosefoot

Family

Chenopodiaceae

Where found

Disturbed sites. Sydney area. ACT and nearby. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Introduced perennial herb to about 1 m high, or sprawling to prostrate. Aromatic, smelling like turpentine. Young branches hairy. Leaves alternating along the stems, 1-6 cm long, to 30 mm wide, deeply dissected, segments with pointed tips, surfaces sparsely cottony-hairy, margins curved down, lower surface with yellow resin droplets. Flowers bisexual and female, with 3-5 'petals' fused almost to the tips. Inflorescence spike like, consisting of flower clusters of 3-5 flowers along the stems. Flowers all year.

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dysphania~multifida  (accessed 12 January, 2021)