Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Hypochaeris radicata

Common name

Flatweed, Catsear

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, grassy areas, disturbed sites and roadsides, and wetland margins. Widespread.

Notes

Introduced perennial herb to 0.8 m tall.  Stems often grooved, usually hairless, sometimes bristly.  Leaves in a rosette at the base of the plant, 2–30 cm long, 10-40 mm wide, bristly, rarely hairless, margins dissected to toothed or with slightly wavy margins, tips blunt.  Flower heads below the 'petals' broad cylindrical, 5-15 mm in diameter, with many yellow ‘petals’, each 8-16 mm long.  Flower heads single or in open clusters of a few flowers.  Flowers most of the year. 

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hypochaeris~radicata  (accessed 19 January, 2021)