Vittadinia cuneata: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Vittadinia
- Species
- Vittadinia cuneata
- Scientific Name
- Vittadinia cuneata
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Vittadinia cuneata
Vittadinia cuneata, known by the common name fuzzweed, is an annual or perennial, herbaceous plant in the family Asteraceae. Stems are rigid and erect with hairs. Widespread in a variety of different habitats in many parts of Australia, particularly the south east. A small woody plant, 10 to 40 cm high. Pale blue to mauve coloured flowers form in most parts of the year. The type specimen was collected in 1817 by Allan Cunningham on the banks of the Lachlan River.
Three varieties are recognized: var. cuneata, var. hirsuta and var. morrisii.
...Vittadinia cuneata in languages:
- English
- Purple Fuzzweed
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Vittadinia arida
- Vittadinia australasica
- Vittadinia australis
- Vittadinia blackii
- Vittadinia burbidgeae
- Vittadinia cervicularis
- Vittadinia condyloides
- Vittadinia constricta
- Vittadinia cuneata
- Vittadinia decora
- Vittadinia dissecta
- Vittadinia eremaea
- Vittadinia gracilis
- Vittadinia hispidula
- Vittadinia humerata
- Vittadinia megacephala
- Vittadinia muelleri
- Vittadinia nullarborensis
- Vittadinia pterochaeta
- Vittadinia pustulata
- Vittadinia sulcata
- Vittadinia tenuissima
- Vittadinia triloba