Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Ammobium alatum

Flower heads. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Jindabyne

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Wandella State Forest west of Cobargo

Plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Jindabyne

Common name

Ammobium, Tall ammobium, Winged everlasting

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, grassland, roadsides, and along streams. Ranges, tablelands, ACT, the mountains to the west, and Kosciuszko National Park. Rarely elsewhere.

Only occurs in highly disturbed sites in Kosciuszko National Park, Southern Tablelands, and the ACT. Becoming an environmental weed in Kosciuszko National Park. Native only to the Northern Tablelands of NSW, where it is uncommon, and occurs in dry forest.

Notes

Introduced annual or perennial woolly herb to 1 m high. Stems winged. Basal leaves 1–6 cm long, 5–15 mm wide, both surfaces more or less woolly, tips with a long drawn out point. Stem leaves few, bract-like. Flower heads with white papery 'petals' 5–10 mm long, and yellow centres becoming darker with age, 10-20 mm in diameter. Flowering: summer.

Treated as native in PlantNET in the area covered by this key. Treated as of uncertain status, whther native or introduced,  in Vic.

Rare Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ammobium~alatum (accessed 22 April 2021)