Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Argyrotegium poliochlorum
Common name
Grey-green cudweed, Swamp cudweed
Family
Asteraceaae
Where found
Wet heath, wet grassland, near streams, and Sphagnum bogs. Kosciuszko National Park and east to south east of Nimmitabel.
Notes
Erect perennial herb to 0.20 m high, rooting from the nodes, sometimes mat-forming. Flowering stems densely hairy. Basal leaves withering early. Stem leaves alternating up the stems, crowded toward the branch tips, 1.5–5 cm long, 1.5–6 mm wide, both surfaces softly woolly tomentose and becoming hairless at the tip, bases narrowed and stem-clasping, tips blunt and with a mucro. Flower heads cylindrical, 6-7 mm long, with about 23-42 florets, and 0 petals. Flower heads 3-7 together, in elongated clusters. Bracts surrounding the flower heads 5–6.5 mm long, green-brown at the base, pale at the tip, brown or red in between. Flowering: summer.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Argyrotegium~poliochlorum (accessed 3 January, 2021)
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