Citation: Miller, Gard. Dict. edn 8 (1768).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
A bushy annual herb to 70 cm tall, sometimes surviving more than one season, slightly or densely greyish-villous-pubescent with simple or glandular hairs, never stellate, unarmed; leaves ovate, on vigorous shoots to 8 x 6 cm but usually less, on mature growth c. 4 x 3 cm, early leaves almost entire, later leaves with 5-7 shallow lobes.

Inflorescence a subumbellate raceme of 3-6 white flowers; peduncle c. 1 cm long; pedicel c. 1 cm long, hirsute; calyx lobes acute to acuminate; corolla c. 12 mm diam., white, stellate but the lobes broader and not so deeply cut as in others of this group so that the flowers appear slightly more showy and whiter, often reflexed; filaments c. 2 mm long, pilose below; anthers c. 1.5 mm long, oblong; style 4-5 mm long, pilose below.

Fruit subglobular, 5-7 mm diam., usually slightly longer than broad, a dull orange-red, translucent, the seeds visible, 19-30 rarely to 40 seeds per fruit, no sclerotic granules present; calyx not enlarged, finally recurved; pedicels usually markedly deflexed.

	Flowering and fruiting branch and a fruit.
Image source: fig. 579E in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Symon (1981) J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 4:55.

Distribution:  Sparingly and doubtfully naturalised. S.Aust.: SL.   W.Aust.; Qld.   Probably native to southern Europe but now a widespread weed in Europe and North America. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: April (1 record).

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

Biology: No text

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