Trailing to weakly erect perennial, to c. 30 cm high; stems glabrous or variably glandular-pubescent. Leaves basal and cauline, mainly narrowly obovate or somewhat linear, 2–16 cm long, 1–10 mm wide, not or somewhat succulent, glabrous or with scattered glandular hairs. Bracts c. 15–20, 1-seriate, c. equal, 2.5–3.5 mm long, 0.7–1 mm wide, mainly herbaceous but with scarious margins, glandular hairy; ligules 6–9 mm long, white or mauve. Cypselas sticky, obovate, 1.6–2.1 mm long, 1–1.4 mm wide, brown, with conspicuous glandular hairs, margins and to some extent the lateral faces conspicuously swollen; pappus absent or to c. 0.3 mm long. Flowers Oct.–May.
MuM, Wim, GleP, Brid, VVP, VRiv, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, MonT, VAlp. Also SA, NSW, ACT, Tas. Found throughout much of the State, from saline coastal marshes in the Glenelg River area to Mallacoota, through to high altitude, freshwater streams and swamps in the eastern highlands, e.g. Benambra and Omeo.
