Common Bow-flower - a native (Millotia muelleri)

Other names: Formerly Toxanthes muelleri.

Family: Asteraceae (Daisy Family).

Native.

Occurrence: Uncommon.

Identification:

• a small plant to a few centimetres high
• it is hairy with glandular hairs (i.e. the hairs are tipped with a sticky ball)
• the florets are mostly hidden by the bracts.

Common Bow-flower differs from Soft Millotia in that the seeds of Bow-flowers seeds do not have a tuft of hairs.

Name: muelleri: Ferdinand von Mueller was a Victorian Government Botanist.