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Pygmy Angianthus

Angianthus pygmaeus

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
Western Australia

About

Angianthus pygmaeus, commonly known as pygmy angianthus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate annual herb with narrowly elliptic or more or less linear leaves, yellow flowers, and broadly top-shaped achenes lacking a pappus.

Where it grows

Pygmy angianthus grows in saline depressions and flats in sandy clay or loam in the salt lakes of the Avon River, in the Avon Wheatbelt and Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Angianthus plants

Hook Leaf Angianthus · Angianthus brachypappus · Angianthus conocephalus · Angianthus cornutus · Coast Angianthus · Angianthus cyathifer · Angianthus drummondii · Angianthus glabratus · Angianthus globuliformis · Angianthus halophilus · Small Headed Angianthus · Angianthus micropodioides

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Angianthus pygmaeus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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