Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Roldana petasitis
Common name
Roldana
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Occasionally naturalised. Roadsides and moist environments. Coastal, mainly in the Sydney area. Occasionally in the ranges.
Notes
Perennial herb or shrub to 3 m high. Stems hairy with coarse hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 8–25 cm long, 100-250 mm wide, with 9–13 shallow lobes, margins sometimes finely toothed, surfaces covered in soft hairs. Flower heads with 3–6 'petals', yellow, sometimes purple on the outside, each 6–10 mm long, and yellow centres 3–5 mm in diameter with 10-15 florets. Flower heads narrow bell shaped below the 'petals'. Flower heads in dense many-flowered branched clusters. Flowers mainly spring.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Roldana~petasitis (accessed 5 February, 2021)
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