Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Gamochaeta coarctata
Common name
Cudweed
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Weed of disturbed ground. Mainly coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced annual or biennial herb to 0.4 m high. Stems with a white felty tomentum. Basal leaves in a rosette, 2.5–7 cm long, 8–16 mm wide, upper surface green, with a distinctly paler furrowed midvein, lower surface white-tomentose, tips blunt, bases slightly stem-clasping, margins sometimes wavy. Stem leaves alternating up the stems, similar to the basal leaves, 1–6 cm long. Flower heads 2–3 mm in diameter. Bracts tightly surrounding the flower heads hairless, green below, pale and chaffy above, purple in between. Flower heads forming a dense spike-like cluster. Flowering: mainly Dec.–Jan.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Gamochaeta~coarctata (accessed 16 April 2021)
Flora North America description: http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=250054376 (accessed 16 April 2021)
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