Prickfoot

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Eryngium vesiculosum

Prostrate herb with trailing branches to 30 cm. Rigid lance-shaped basal leaves with long spiny teeth and ribbed stems. Flowerheads are ovoid to hemispherical 7 mm long and 8 mm wide on stalks arising from the basal rosette and from successive pairs of opposite spiny bracts on the trailing branches. Metallic blue flowers.

Details
Flora Type
Herbs
Distinctive Features

Prostrate plant.
Biology

Perennial. Widespread and locally common in seasonally wet grassland, sedgeland or grassy woodland.
Native Status
Native
Flowering Time

Dec-Feb
Taxonomy
Phylum
Tracheophyta (Vascular Plants)
Class
Magnoliopsida (Flowering Plants)
Order
Apiales
Family
Apiaceae
Genus
Eryngium
Species
vesiculosum

Source: Atlas of Living Australia

This species is vary variable in size.

Interesting Facts
Native Status
Native