Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Vellereophyton dealbatum

Flower heads on stem. Photographer Neville Walsh, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board, Melbourne, Vic

Flowering stem. Photographer Don Wood, Pambula

Plants. Photographer Russell Best, Wilsons Promontary National Park, Vic

Line drawings. c. plant; flower head. E Mayfield, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Common name

White cudweed

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Disturbed, usually moist, sites. Mainly coastal. Occasionally on the tablelands.

Notes

Introduced annual or rarely biennial or perennial herb to 0.50 m high. Forms mats. Stems and leaves densely grey- or white-cottony or woolly. Basal leaves soon withering. Stem leaves alternating up the stems, 1–6 cm long, 1–7 mm wide, narrowed at the base. Flower heads white, the tips of the florets yellow to red, 2–3 mm long, 1–2 mm in diameter, 10–40 together in globular clusters. Flowering: most of year.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Vellereophyton~dealbatum (accessed 8 February, 2021)