Actinotus forsythii

Annual, diffuse herb with procumbent stems to 50 cm long. Leaves glabrous (sparsely pubescent when young); lamina 0.5–1.5 cm long, 1.0–1.5 cm wide, 3–7-lobed, lobes lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acute; petiole 4–25 mm long. Scape procumbent to ascending, to 10 cm long in fruit, with white spreading hairs; inflorescence terminal or axillary, 1–2 cm diam.; involucral bracts 10–12, spreading, elliptic, c. 7 mm long, white to pink and densely silky hairy above, green to white-pink and sparsely hairy below. Flowers to c. 80 per umbel, all unisexual; outer flowers male, petals papery; inner flowers female, sepals minute and forming skirt on ovary, petals absent. Fruit ovate 1.5–2.5 mm long, dark grey-brown, with a light brown margin, villous and with 2 median ridges on both faces, sepals persistent. Flowers Jan.–May (rarely Sep.–Oct.).