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Family: Asteraceae
Urospermum picroides

Citation: F.W. Schmidt, Samml. Phys. Oekon. Aufstäze 1:275 (1795).

Synonymy: Tragopogon picroides L., Sp. Pl. 790 ( 1753); Arnopogon picroides (L.) Willd., Sp. Pl. 3:1496 (1803).

Common name: False hawkbit, urospermum.

Description:
Annual 10-50 cm high, softly herbaceous, glaucous to pale-green; stem erect, simple of few-branched, setulose-scabrous; basal leaves oblanceolate, attenuate at the base, obtuse, 3-16 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, denticulate to pinnatisect, sometimes lyrate, setulose-scabrous; cauline leaves elliptic to lanceolate, acutely auriculate, acute, 3-14 cm long, 1-5 cm wide, entire to pinnatipartite, minutely setulose-scabrous, more densely so on mid-veins.

Peduncles 1.5-8 cm long, erect, thickened toward the apex, setulose-scabrous; involucre 13-20 mm long, setose; ligules c. 1.5 cm long, pale-yellow.

Achene 10-12 mm long including a beak 6-8 mm long, pale-brown, tuberculate below, minutely puberulent; pappus bristles 16-20, 8-12 mm long, white.

Distribution:  Roadsides, sand dunes, rough pasture, disturbed scrub and woodland.

S.Aust.: GT, FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; Vic.   Native to southern Europe, the Mediterranean and south-western Asia.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: Aug. — Dec.


SA Distribution Map based
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specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

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