Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Euchiton traversii
Common name
Mat Cudweed
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Bare patches in wet heath and grassland, at high altitudes. Kosciuszko National Park. Occasionally in the ACT and on the western edge of the ranges/eastern edge of the tablelands.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.1 m high, rhizomatous, occasionally forming loose mats. Flower stalks woolly, zig-zaggy. Leaves mostly in a basal rosette, 1.2–5 cm long, 3-10 mm wide, both surfaces silver-grey or whitish with dense, appressed cottony hairs, becoming hairless at the leaf tip, tips broad-pointed. Bracts appressed to the flower head shining, straw-coloured, tinged red towards the tips, or with a red-purple band below the straw-coloured tip. Flower head single, 5-6 mm long, bell-shaped or cup-shaped, woolly at the base, with 8 or more florets. Flower head at the top of the flower stalk. Flowering: mainly summer.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Euchiton~traversii (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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