Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Leptinella longipes

Flower head and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Murramarang National Park north of Batemans Bay

Flowering plants. Photographer Russell Best, Wilsons Promontary National Park, Vic

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Murramarang National Park north of Batemans Bay

Common name

Creeping cotula

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Swamps. Coastal. Blue Mountains.

Notes

Stoloniferous perennial herb, hairless to sparsely hairy. Branches prostrate, usually with leaves clustered near the tips. Leaves alternating along the stems, overall 2–8 cm long, 9–30 mm wide, somewhat fleshy, compound or deeply dissected, surfaces dotted with glands, bases sheathing, stalks slender, to 10 cm long. Flower heads cream to yellow, 4–8 mm in diameter, with 0 petals, single. Flower stalks slender, usually as long as the leaves. Flowering: throughout the year.

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leptinella~longipes (accessed 22 January, 2021)