Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Sonchus hydrophilus
Native sowthistle
Asteraceae
In temporarily wet ground, and the margins of lakes and streams. Coastal. Occasionally elsewhere.
Annual, biennial, or perennial herb, to 1.7 m tall. Stems hairless. Leaves soft to mildly papery, hairless, sometimes glaucous, margins toothed to lobed or dissected, and not spiny. Basal leaves 5-30 cm long, 10-50 mm wide, tips mucronate, in a rosette. Stem leaves alternating up the stems, 10-40 cm long, 20-60 mm wide, upper leaves with strongly stem-clasping rounded basal lobes, tips pointed. Flower heads with 100-200 yellow 'petals' each 4-5 mm long. Flower heads behind the ‘petals’ 10-15 mm long, 10-20 mm in diameter. Flower heads in open clusters. Flowers most of the year.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Sonchus~hydrophilus (accessed 6 February, 2021)
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