Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Leontodon rhagadioloides
Common name
Cretan weed
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Woodland, grassy areas and disturbed sites, often in moist places. Mostly ACT and Nearby, and the Sydney area. Sporadic elsewhere.
Notes
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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