Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Cotula australis

Flowers, spent flower, and leaves. Photographer Jackie Miles

Back of seed head. Photographer Zoya Akulova, California, USA

Plant. Photographer Don Wood, near Tathra

Common name

Common cotula, Carrot weed

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, grassy areas, roadsides and disturbed sites. Widespread.

Notes

Annual or perennial herb, mat-forming, weakly rooting at the nodes, prostrate or to 0.2 m tall.  Stems more or less hairy.  Leaves alternating along the stems, 1-4 cm long, 7-10 mm wide, hairy to sparsely hairy, deeply dissected with linear lobes which are again lobed.  Flower heads white to pale yellow, 4-6 mm in diameter, hemispherical, with many florets, 0 petals. Flowers Winter to Spring.

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=Cotula~australis (accessed 7 January, 2021)