Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Centipeda elatinoides

Flower heads and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Namadgi National Park, ACT

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Paul Hadobas, between Bungendore and Braidwood

Common name

A sneezeweed

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Seasonally inundated sites eg creek beds, and margins of rivers, lakes, and billabongs. Widespread but not common.

Notes

Prostrate annual or perennial herb with branches to about 0.3 m long, sometimes rooting from the lower nodes. Stems hairless, sometimes with short hairs near the growing tips. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, mostly alternating along the stems, 0.6-2 cm long, 2.5-8 mm wide, resin dotted on both surfaces, margins entire or shallowly toothed. Flower heads stalked, biconvex to hemispherical, 3-5 mm in diameter, with many florets. Outer florets green or yellow-green, inner florets often purplish. Flowers mostly Jan.–May.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Centipeda~elatinoides (accessed 7 January, 2021)