Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Gomphrena celosioides
Common name
Gomphrena Weed
Family
Amaranthaceae
Where found
Pastures, roadsides, and moist sites. Mainly Sydney area and Western Slopes. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced annual or perennial herb to 0.3 m high or sprawling to prostrate. Stems hairy to hairless. Leaves opposite each other, 1–5 cm long, 4–46 mm wide, tips pointed, upper surface sparsely hairy to hairless, lower surface hairy to woolly. Flowers with 5 white, shining, papery 'petals' each 4–6 mm long. Flowers in globular or oval to cylindrical clusters 10-40 mm long. Flowers Dec.–Jul.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Gomphrena~celosioides (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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