Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Cotula bipinnata
Common name
Ferny Cotula
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Poorly drained pastures, roadsides, and moist, often saline, sites. Western Slopes.
Notes
Introduced annual herb to about 0.25 m tall. Stems hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1-6 cm long, 10-20 mm wide, hairless, deeply dissected, the segments dissected, with a bases sheathing or stem-clasping. Upper leaves smaller, entire. Flower heads cream with a yellow centre, 6–8 mm in diameter, hemispherical, with many florets, 0 petals. Margins of the bracts surrounding the flower heads often purplish. Flower heads single. Flower stalks 20-80 mm long.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cotula~bipinnata (accessed 8 January, 2021)
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