Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pappochroma setosum
Common name
Dwarf Fleabane
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Alpine herbfields and wet areas along stream banks. Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Tufted dwarf herb to 0.07 m high, rhizomatous. Flower stalks and sticky. Leaves forming a basal rosette, 0.6–1.5 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, thick, margins entire, surfaces coarsely bristly. Flower heads with many white 'petals', each 2.5–5 mm long, and yellow centres with many florets. Flower heads 5–10 mm in diameter below the 'petals', hemispherical, becoming globular in seed, single, almost stalkless at first or on very short stalks, stalks elongating to about 7 cm long in seed. Flowering: Nov.–Jan.
Erigeron setosus in PlantNET
PlantNET description (as Erigeron setosus): http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Erigeron~setosus (accessed 20 April 2021)
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