Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Pappochroma paludicola
Bog Fleabane
Asteraceae
Bog margins, often growing through Sphagnum moss, in alpine to subalpine areas. Kosciuszko National Park.
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)
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