Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Pappochroma setosum

Common name

Dwarf Fleabane

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Alpine herbfields and wet areas along stream banks. Kosciuszko National Park.

Notes

Tufted dwarf herb to 0.07 m high, rhizomatous. Flower stalks and sticky. Leaves forming a basal rosette, 0.6–1.5 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, thick, margins entire, surfaces coarsely bristly. Flower heads with many white 'petals', each 2.5–5 mm long, and yellow centres with many florets. Flower heads 5–10 mm in diameter below the 'petals', hemispherical, becoming globular in seed, single, almost stalkless at first or on very short stalks, stalks elongating to about 7 cm long in seed. Flowering: Nov.–Jan.

Erigeron setosus in PlantNET

PlantNET description (as Erigeron setosus):  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Erigeron~setosus  (accessed 20 April 2021)