Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Diplaspis nivis
Common name
Snow Pennywort
Family
Apiaceae
Where found
Alpine herbfields, damp places, and bogs. Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.12 m high. Flower stalks hairless or sparsely bristly. Leaves in a basal rosette, 0.5–1.5 cm long, 5-15 mm wide, thick and more or less fleshy, lower surface paler, both surfaces hairless or the upper surface sparsely bristly, bases cordate; margins curved down, and entire or finely scalloped.. Flowers white, yellowish green, or tinged red, with 5 petals, about 2.5 mm in diameter, in clusters of about 10–30 flowers. Flowers summer.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Diplaspis~nivis (accessed 12 January, 2021)
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