Oekon. Fl. Wetterau 1: 219 (1799) APNI
Taxonomic status:Accepted
Occurrence status:Present
Establishment means:Naturalised
Annual with fibrous roots; glabrous, glaucous. Stems slender, erect, with few ascending basal branches, 3–12 cm high. Basal leaves rosulate, shortly petiolate, soon withering; upper leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate to linear, 5–15 mm long, 0.7–2 mm wide, acute. Inflorescence lax, few-flowered. Flowers c. 8 mm diam.; pedicels rigidly erect, glabrous, 10–50 mm long; calyx glabrous, sepals lanceolate, acute, with broad, white-scarious margins, 4.5–7 mm long; petals white, two-thirds the length of sepals; styles 4. Capsule equalling or slightly longer than sepals, more or less cylindric, opening by 8 teeth; seeds reddish-brown, finely tuberculate, 0.5–0.7 mm diam. Flowers Aug.–Nov.
*CVU, *DunT, *EGL, *EGU, *GipP, *Glep, *Gold, *GGr, *HNF, *HSF, *LoM, *MonT, *MuF, *NIS, *OtP, *OtR, *VAlp, *VRiv, *VVP, *WaP, *WPro, *Wim. Also naturalised SA, NSW, Tas. Native to central and southern Europe. A widespread weed of disturbed soils in southern Australia.
Bioregion | Occurrence status | Establishment means | |
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Lowan Mallee | present | naturalised | |
Wimmera | present | naturalised | |
Glenelg Plain | present | naturalised | |
Victorian Volcanic Plain | present | naturalised | |
Victorian Riverina | present | naturalised | |
Murray Fans | present | naturalised | |
Gippsland Plain | present | naturalised | |
Otway Plain | present | naturalised | |
Warrnambool Plain | present | naturalised | |
Goldfields | present | naturalised | |
Central Victorian Uplands | present | naturalised | |
Greater Grampians | present | naturalised | |
Dundas Tablelands | present | naturalised | |
Northern Inland Slopes | present | naturalised | |
East Gippsland Lowlands | present | naturalised | |
East Gippsland Uplands | present | naturalised | |
Wilsons Promontory | present | naturalised | |
Highlands-Southern Fall | present | naturalised | |
Highlands-Northern Fall | present | naturalised | |
Otway Ranges | present | naturalised | |
Monaro Tablelands | present | introduced | |
Victorian Alps | present | naturalised |
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Western Australia |
South Australia |
New South Wales |
Australian Capital Territory |
Victoria |
Tasmania |