Citation: Benth. & Hook. f. ex A. Gray in Brewer, S. Watson & A. Gray, Bot. Calif. 1:350 (1876) subsp, encelioides. Crownbeard.

Synonymy: Ximenesia encelioides Cav., Icon. 2:60, t. 178 (1793).

Common name: None

Description:
Annual herb to 1 m high; stems erect, branched, becoming woody below; leaves opposite below, alternate above, triangular to lanceolate, on petioles with prominent dentate auricles at the base, coarsely dentate, 5-10 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, green and pubescent above, grey and densely appressed-pubescent below.

Capitula in loose cymes of 2-6; peduncles 4-13 cm long, naked, pubescent; involucral bracts 2-seriate, narrowly lanceolate, entire, 7-15 mm long, pubescent; ray florets 12-15; ligules oblanceolate, 3-toothed at the apex, 10-20 mm long, pale-yellow.

Ray achenes trigonous, c. 5 mm long, wingless, tuberculate; pappus absent; disk florets numerous, bright-yellow; disk achenes obovate, 5-7 mm long, flat, winged, pubescent, dark-brown; pappus of 2 short awns.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 680.

Distribution:  On alluvial flats and roadsides.   N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.   Native to North America. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: March — May.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: An occasional weed, toxic to stock, so far recorded from only a single locality in S.Aust.

Author: Not yet available