Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Chondrilla juncea
Common name
Skeleton weed
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Grassy areas, disturbed sites, and roadsides. Western Slopes, Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, ACT, Tablelands, and Sydney area. Occasional elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced perennial herb to 1.3 m tall. Stems ribbed, hairy or bristly at the base. Basal leaves soon withering, 4-20 cm long, 15-50 mm wide, margins toothed or lobed, surfaces hairless, tips blunt. Stem leaves alternating up the stems, to about 10 cm long, mostly reduced and bract-like, hairless, with entire margins. Often leafless at flowering time. Flower heads with 9-15 yellow ‘petals’ 7-10 mm long. Flower heads 10-20 mm in diameter behind the 'petals', cylindrical, in clusters of 1-3. Flowers Summer to Autumn.
Noxious weed Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Chondrilla~juncea (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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