Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Sclerolaena diacantha
Common name
Grey Copperburr
Family
Chenopodiaceae
Where found
Woodland, mallee, shrubland, grassy areas, and bare ground. Western Slopes.
Notes
Shrub or perennial herb to about 0.30 m tall or sprawling to prostrate. Leaves usually fleshy. Branches densely shortly woolly. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5 to about 2.5 cm long, linear, flattened narrow cylindrical, appressed hairy. Flowers tiny (less than 3mm in diameter), cup-shaped, with 3-5 lobes, single. Burrs sparsely to densely hairy, with 2 spines, rarely a short third spine developed adjacent to one of the others.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Sclerolaena~diacantha (accessed 6 February, 2021)
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