Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Actinotus minor

Flower. Photographer John Tann, Royal National Park, Sydney

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index. Photographer Murray Fagg, near Robertson

Flowering plant. Photographer Don Wood, Conjola State Forest

Common name

Lesser flannel flower

Family

Apiaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, and heath. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands north from near the Kings Highway. One group of sightings in the ranges south east of Bombala.

Notes

Perennial herb to 0.5 m tall, or sprawling. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.6-0.8 cm long, compound, with 3 often lobed leaflets, upper surface more or less hairless, lower surface hairy or white-hairy. Flower heads surrounded by about 9-12 white to pinky mauve 'petals', overall 3.5-15 mm in diameter. The backs of the 'petals' sometimes purplish. Individual flowers white, small, outer flowers in the flower heads male, inner bisexual. Flowers mainly Summer, occasionally throughout the year.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Actinotus~minor  (accessed 2 January, 2021)