Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Pappochroma paludicola

Flower heads and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Kosciuszko National Park

Flowering plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Kosciuszko National Park

Common name

Bog Fleabane

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Bog margins, often growing through Sphagnum moss, in alpine to subalpine areas. Kosciuszko National Park.

Notes

Tufted herb to 0.3 m high with creeping rhizomes. Flower stalks sparsely hairy, also with occasional glandular hairs. Leaves mostly in a basal rosette,  2–10 cm long, 4–14 mm wide, with long stalk-like bases, margins entire or with a few teeth towards the tips, surfaces sparsely hairy and with scattered stalkless glands. Stem leaves alternating up the stems, narrower, passing gradually into linear bracts. Flower heads with with 22-51 'petals' each 3-13 mm long, and yellow centres with 6-11 florets. 'Petals' white to pink, white tipped mauve to crimson, or mauve to purplish. Flower heads 10–15 mm in diameter below the 'petals', hemispherical to top-shaped, single. Flowering: Jan.–Mar.

Erigeron paludicola in PlantNET.

PlantNET description (as Erigeron paludicola):  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Erigeron~paludicola (accessed 20 April 2021)

Description above partly based on Forbes, S.J. & Morris, D.I. (1996), A review of the Erigeron pappocromus Labill. complex. Muelleria 9: 178-181