Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pappochroma nitidum
Common name
Sticky Fleabane, Varnished Fleabane
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Heath, grassland, and herbfields, in alpine to subalpine areas. Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, and the ACT.
Notes
Tufted herb to 0.17 m high, often forming colonies. Rhizomatous. Flower stalks sticky, sparsely woolly. Leaves mostly in a basal rosette, 1.5–8 cm long, 4–20 mm wide, sticky, more or less hairless or with minute glandular hairs, tips blunt, margins entire or with a few teeth, leaves with a long stalk. Flower heads with 43-100 'petals' white, pink, mauve, or purplish, each 4–10 mm long. Centres yellow, with 12-40 florets. Flower heads 15–25 mm in diameter below the 'petals', hemispherical to top-shaped, single. Bracts appressed to the flower head linear, pointed, sticky with glandular hairs and short simple hairs. Flowering: Dec.–Mar.
Erigeron nitidus in PlantNET.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description (as Erigeron nitidus): http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Erigeron~nitidus (accessed 17 April 2021)
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