Family: Apiaceae
Plant: An erect or sprawling, wiry plant up to 50cm high.
Flowers: White daisy-like flower 12mm diameter. Tiny flowers, clustered into a central flower head surrounded by velvety hairy white bracts.
Flowering: All year.
Fruit: Ovate, hairy, 2-3mm long and about 1mm wide.
Leaves: Hairy on the underside and divided into 3 linear or elliptic pointed segments 6-8mm long.
Habitat: In dry sclerophyll forest and heathland on sandy soils.
Features: Small but conspicuous daisy-like flowers.
Name:
Actinotus From Greek = having-rays (referring to its flowers).
minor From Latin minor = small..
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Type |
Herb |
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Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Single |
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Colour(s) |
Cream, White |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
Many |
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Flowering Month |
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, |
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8, 9, 10, 11,12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Other |
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Colour |
Green, Grey |
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Other Features |
Hairy |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
- |
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Length |
Tiny |
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Margins |
Divided/Lobed |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
Soft, Hairy |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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