Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Platysace ericoides
Common name
Heath platysace
Family
Apiaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, heath, and roadsides. Coast, ranges, tablelands, and Western Slopes, mainly north of the Hume Highway.
Notes
Shrub to 0.5 m high or sprawling. Stems rough to bristly. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.28–3 cm long, 0.5–2.5 mm wide, pex pointed, mucronate; surfaces hairless to bristly. Flowers small, with 5 white to cream petals, in few to many-flowered clusters 5–22 mm in diameter. Flowering: August–April.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Platysace~ericoides (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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