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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Asteraceae
Tanacetum boreale

Citation: Fischer ex Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. 2:313 (1822).

Synonymy: T. huronense sensu J. Black, Nat. Fl. S. Aust. 83 (1909), non Fischer.

Common name: Lesser tansy.

Description:
Perennial herb to I m high; stems erect, robust, unbranched or sparsely branched, fibbed, sparsely pubescent; leaves ovate to obovate, to 20 cm long, c. 12 cm wide, pubescent to tomentose with microscopic glandular and non-glandular hairs; corymbs compound, leafy below, the ultimate branches naked.

Achenes of the outer series 3-ribbed, the inner ones 5-ribbed, all c. 1.5 mm long.

Distribution:  Introduced as a garden ornamental and locally naturalised on roadsides.

  Native to Siberia.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: mainly Dec. — March.


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