Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Solenogyne bellioides

Common name

A Solengyne

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Forest and grassland. Mainly Sydney area and the mountains to the west. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Perennial herb. Flower stalks 3–22 cm long, slender, about 0.5 mm in diameter. Leaves basal, 2–7 cm long, 6–20 mm wide, both surfaces more or less hairless to hairy, tips blunt, often with a distinct group of 3, more or less equal, closely spaced pointed teeth. Flower heads single, 5–7 mm in diameter, bell shaped to hemispherical. 'Petals' white to bluish; about 0.7 mm long. Flowering: spring–summer. Bracts appressed to the flower heads bent sharply down at the seeding stage.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Solenogyne~bellioides (accessed 7 February, 2021)