Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Centipeda minima subsp. minima
Common name
Spreading sneezeweed
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Disturbed sites, damp places, swampy ground, stream banks, and in water. Widespread.
Notes
Annual herb, occasionally perennial, prostrate or to 0.2 m tall, rarely rooting from the lower nodes, more or less hairless to woolly or cottony. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating along the stems, sometimes almost opposite each other, 0.3-2.7 cm long, 1-11 mm wide, with scattered resin dots, margins entire or toothed, tips pointed or blunt. Flower heads 1.5-4 mm in diameter, with many florets, 0 petals, almost globular, or hemispherical with a domed top, stalkless, usually single. Flowers mainly Spring to Summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Centipeda~minima (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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