Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Amsinckia calycina
Common name
Hairy fiddleneck, Yellow Burr-weed, Amsinckia
Family
Boraginaceae
Where found
A weed of pastures, cultivated land and other disturbed sites. ACT, Queanbeyan and nearby. Western Slopes. Sydney area. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced annual herb 0.15–0.6 m tall. Stems hairy and bristly. Leaves in a basal rosette and alternating up the stems, basal leaves 2.5-10 cm long, 2-25 mm wide, bristly, margins sometimes wavy, bases sometimes almost cordate. Stem leaves becoming narrower and smaller up the stems. Flowers 5-8 mm long, pale yellow, tubular, with 5 lobes, the tube much longer than the lobes. Flowers in clusters on one side of the coiled stalk when young, the stalk soon elongating. 'Seeds' brown to black, not or weakly transversely wrinkled, usually 2-2.5 mm long. Flowers Spring.
Noxious weed Vic.
Plants naturalised in the ACT are intermediate between Amsinckia calycina and Amsinckia intermedia.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Amsinckia~calycina (accessed 3 January, 2021)
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