Lower leaves c. ovate in outline, shallowly lobed to subentire, glabrescent, not or sparsely glandular beneath. Calyx often purplish. Flowers Jun.–Nov.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, RobP, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGU, HSF, HNF, MonT. Also naturalised WA, SA, Qld, NSW, Tas. Native to southern and western Europe and North Africa. A common weed of crops and road-verges, usually on relatively fertile ground, almost throughout lowland Victoria.