Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eclipta platyglossa
Common name
Yellow twin-heads
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Damp and shallowly flooded areas, usually near water. Mainly Sydney area and Western Slopes. Rarely elsewhere.
Notes
Annual or biennial herb, prostrate or to 0.30 m tall. Stems hairless or with short sparse appressed hairs. Leaves opposite each other, 1.5-7 cm long, 2-7 mm wide, surfaces appressed-hairy, margins entire, tips pointed. Flower heads bell-shaped, about 1 mm long, 3–4 mm in diameter, with 8-12 yellow 'petals' about 1 mm long and yellow centres with 8-13 florets. Flower heads in opposite pairs or single in the axils of the leaves.
Eclipta platyglossa in PlantNET.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eclipta~platyglossa (accessed 11 February 2021)
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