Spreading herb 30–80 cm high, glabrous; stems rigid, much-branched. Leaves usually divided several times, 10–50 mm long, sessile, ultimate divisions more or less linear, mostly 1–2 mm wide, apex acute. Flowers solitary; pedicels to 20 mm long; sepals usually 5, linear, 8–20 mm long, often toothed or divided, free; petals usually 5, ovate-oblong, 12–17 mm long, sometimes toothed or lobed, apex obtuse, creamy-white. Fruit a loculicidal capsule, depressed globose, 7–10 mm long, 8–12 mm diam., stipitate, opening at apex. Flowers mostly Nov.–Feb.
VRiv, MuF, Gold. Also naturalised SA, NSW. Native to Spain and northern Africa to Tibet. Known in Victoria only from the Katamatite, Mooroopna West and Nathalia areas where a weed of pasture.
Source:
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Zygophyllaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 198–207. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
