Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Oreomyrrhis ciliata
Common name
Bog carraway
Family
Apiaceae
Where found
Woodland, herbfields, and in and around bogs. Kosciuszko National Park and ACT. Tablelands and the western edge of the ranges east and south from the ACT.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.45 m tall, highly aromatic with a sickly sweet odour. Flower stalks hairy. Leaves in a basal rosette, compound or deeply dissected, 1–9 cm long, 5–30 mm wide, with 9 to about 21 leaflets each 0.3–1.5 cm long, 2–10 mm wide, hairless except for the finely toothed to fringed margins, basal sheaths hairless, tips pointed and mucronate. Flowers white with a yellow midvein, with 5 petals about 1 mm long, hairless or hairy on the outside, in 5–25-flowered clusters. Flowering: summer. 'Seeds' dark brown.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Oreomyrrhis~ciliata (accessed 29 January, 2021)
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