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Pogonolepis muelleriana


Prostrate ground herb with running stem. Narrow, bluish-green leaves covered in white cottony hairs. Small, cottony, white flower-heads almost hidden in the leafy ends of the wiry stems.


Details
Flora Type
Herbs
Former Scientific Name
Angianthus strictus
Biology

Perennial. Sandy soils in the mallee.

Native Status
Native
Flowering Time

Spring

Taxonomy
Phylum
Tracheophyta (Vascular Plants)
Class
Magnoliopsida (Flowering Plants)
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Pogonolepis
Species
muelleriana

Rare


Interesting Facts
Similar Species

Similar in form to the fine erect Small Wrinklewort Rutidosis multiflora and the shorter, more prostrate Flannel Cudweed Actinobole uliginiosum

Native Status
Native