Common name: Nipplewort
Lapsana communis L. APNI* Description: Annual or biennial herb to 1 m high; stem erect, finely ribbed, with crisped non-glandular hairs.
Lower leaves oblanceolate, toothed to lyrate-pinnatifid with a large terminal lobe and small lateral lobes, to 16 cm long, 7 cm wide; upper leaves ovate to lanceolate, toothed to almost entire, becoming sessile up stem.
Heads in ± corymbose panicle; heads small, 4–5 mm diam.; outer bracts minute; inner bracts 6–10, keeled, glabrous, green, slightly incurved. Ray florets 5–10 mm long, pale yellow.
Achenes 3–5 mm long, outer ones longest, c. 20-ribbed, pale.
Flowering: December–February
Distribution and occurrence: Grows on roadsides and cultivated areas near Queanbeyan. Native of Eur., Asia.
NSW subdivisions: *SC, *NT, *CT, *ST, *NWS
Other Australian states: *Vic. *Tas. *S.A.
Text by L. Murray
Taxon concept:
| N.S.W. occurrences are: subsp. communis |
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