Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Leontodon rhagadioloides
Cretan weed
Asteraceae
Woodland, grassy areas and disturbed sites, often in moist places. Mostly ACT and Nearby, and the Sydney area. Sporadic elsewhere.
Introduced annual herb to 0.5 m tall or prostrate. Stems almost hairless to bristly. Basal leaves 2-20 cm long, 8-40 mm wide, rough-hairy particularly on the margins and midrib, margins toothed and wavy to dissected, or entire, tips blunt. Stem leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5-10 cm long, 3-28 mm wide, rough to hairy, margins entire to occasionally dissected, hardly stem clasping, tips pointed. Flower heads with many yellow ‘petals’ each 3-8 mm long. Flower heads below the ‘petals’ about 10 mm in diameter. Flower heads single. Flowers Spring.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leontodon~rhagadioloides (accessed 21 April 2021)
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