Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Leiocarpa tomentosa
Common name
Woolly Plover-daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Mallee, woodland, shrubland, pastures, and near streams. Western Slopes.
Notes
Aromatic perennial herb mostly to 0.7 m tall, woody towards the base. Young stems woolly to cobwebby with underlying glandular hairs, becoming almost hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, mostly 1-3 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, flat, hairy and sticky, margins sometimes wavy, tips with a mucro. Flower heads yellow, 12–18 mm in diameter, with many florets, 0 petals, broadly bell-shaped or top-shaped to cylindrical, borne singly at the tops of the stems. Bodies of the 'seeds' completely hairless
Endangered Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leiocarpa~tomentosa (accessed 17 January, 2021)
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