Spoon Cudweed

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Stuartina muelleri

Widespread tiny prostrate annual herb with broad, round or spoon-shaped greyish leaves covered in a cobweb of soft white hairs.

Details
Flora Type
Herbs
Former Scientific Name
Gnephosis rotundifolia
Distinctive Features

Tips of the flowers showing through the hairs are red.
Biology

Annual. Sandy and shallow rocky soils. Apparently unpalatable and often colonises bare soil around rabbit warrens.
Native Status
Native
Taxonomy
Phylum
Tracheophyta (Vascular Plants)
Class
Magnoliopsida (Flowering Plants)
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Stuartina
Species
muelleri

Source: Atlas of Living Australia

After Charles Stuart (1802-1877), a botanical collector in eastern Aust. Naturalized in NZ and Scotland.

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Native Status
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