Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hypochaeris radicata
Common name
Flatweed, Catsear
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, grassy areas, disturbed sites and roadsides, and wetland margins. Widespread.
Notes
Introduced perennial herb to 0.8 m tall. Stems often grooved, usually hairless, sometimes bristly. Leaves in a rosette at the base of the plant, 2–30 cm long, 10-40 mm wide, bristly, rarely hairless, margins dissected to toothed or with slightly wavy margins, tips blunt. Flower heads below the 'petals' broad cylindrical, 5-15 mm in diameter, with many yellow ‘petals’, each 8-16 mm long. Flower heads single or in open clusters of a few flowers. Flowers most of the year.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hypochaeris~radicata (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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