Slender annual to 80 cm high; stem less than 1 cm diam. at base. Leaves mostly cauline, herbaceous, green, shallowly pinnatifid to toothed. Cypselas smooth to sparsely scabrous on margins and ribs. Flowers mostly Oct.–Dec.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, Brid, VVP, VRiv, RobP, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, VAlp. Widespread across much of Victoria where a reasonably common weed of usually moist sites both disturbed and relatively natural.
Source:
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Asteraceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 652–666. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
