Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Galinsoga parviflora

Flower heads and leaves. Photographer Bart Wursten, Zimbabwe

Flowering plant. Photographer Don Wood, west of Pambula

Line drawings. g. flowering branch; flower head (from above and side); outer floret with 'petal'; seed of a centre floret (without 'petal'). Elspeth Beckett, University of Oxford., © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board, Melbourne, Vic

Common name

Potato Weed, Gallant Soldier

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Disturbed habitats, gardens, and agricultural areas. Coast. Ranges north of Kiama. ACT. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Introduced annual herb to 0.6 m high. Stems grooved, slightly rough to almost hairless. Leaves opposite each other, 1–6 cm long, 5–40 mm wide, tips pointed, surfaces almost hairless or covered with minute bristles; margins fringed. Upper leaves usually smaller and narrower. Flower heads 4–7 mm in diameter overall, usually with 5 'petals' about 1 mm long, and yellow centres with many florets. Flower heads in loose clusters at the tops of the stems.Flowers Spring to Summer.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Galinsoga~parviflora  (accessed 22 January, 2021) rough