Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Stuartina muelleri
Spoon cudweed
Asteraceae
Dry forest, woodland, grassy areas, and rocky hillsides. Tablelands, ACT, and Western Slopes. Occasional in Kosciuszko National Park.
Annual herb to 0.3 m tall or prostrate. Stems hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems and in clusters or whorls under the flower heads, 0.2-3.5 cm long, 3-14 mm wide, upper surface green and hairless, lower surface hairy, margins usually wavy, bases stem clasping, tips blunt, usually with an abrupt flexible point. Individual flower heads green to brown, with 5-6 florets, 0 petals, in stemless spherical to hemispherical clusters of about 5–30 heads (that look like single flower heads) 3-8 mm in diameter. Tips of the bracts appressed to the flower heads have short dark brownish curved-back points not extending from the mid-rib. Flowers Spring.
VICFLORA describes the clusters of flower heads as compound heads. (accessed 19 March, 2021)
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=Stuartina~muelleri (accessed 19 March, 2021)
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