Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Euchiton traversii
Mat Cudweed
Asteraceae
Bare patches in wet heath and grassland, at high altitudes. Kosciuszko National Park. Occasionally in the ACT and on the western edge of the ranges/eastern edge of the tablelands.
Perennial herb to 0.1 m high, rhizomatous, occasionally forming loose mats. Flower stalks woolly, zig-zaggy. Leaves mostly in a basal rosette, 1.2–5 cm long, 3-10 mm wide, both surfaces silver-grey or whitish with dense, appressed cottony hairs, becoming hairless at the leaf tip, tips broad-pointed. Bracts appressed to the flower head shining, straw-coloured, tinged red towards the tips, or with a red-purple band below the straw-coloured tip. Flower head single, 5-6 mm long, bell-shaped or cup-shaped, woolly at the base, with 8 or more florets. Flower head at the top of the flower stalk. Flowering: mainly summer.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Euchiton~traversii (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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