Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Logfia gallica

Flower heads. Photographer Richard Spellenberg, California, USA

Spent flowers. Photographer Keir Morse, California, USA

Flowering plant. Photographer Richard Spellenberg, California, USA

Common name

Narrow Leaved Cudweed

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Woodland and grassland. Canberra and tablelands.

Notes

Introduced annual herb to about 0.2 m high, whitish- or greyish-cottony hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5–2 cm long, about 1 mm wide, somewhat rigid and erect, margins rolled down. Flower heads about 2.5–3.5 mm long, with 14-21 florets per flower head. Bracts tightly appressed to the flower heads mainly translucent, with greenish midribs, and brownish or purplish translucent tips. Outer bracts with cottony hairs on the midrib. Flower heads in clusters of about 2–12, surrounded by leaves to about twice the length of the clusters. Flowers Nov.–Dec.

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