Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Cotula coronopifolia
Common name
Water buttons
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Damp, often saline, disturbed sites. In water or mud. Coast. Occasionally ranges and tablelands.
Notes
Introduced annual or perennial herb, mat-forming, to 0.60 m tall. Somewhat fleshy hairless stems. Leaves somewhat fleshy, alternating along the stems, 1-8 cm long, 2–10 mm wide, entire or with few teeth or lobes; with a sheath at the base. Upper leaves smaller, entire. Flower heads 5-12 mm in diameter, yellow, hemispherical to cup-shaped, with many florets, 0 petals. Flowers mainly Winter to Spring.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cotula~coronopifolia (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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