Smooth Rice-flower - native (Pimelea glauca)

Family: Thymelaeaceae.

Native.

Occurrence: Uncommon. Most local records are from Muckleford e.g. along the Pyrenees Highway. It may be locally abundant.

Identification:

• it a small sub-shrub
• it has clusters of white tube-flowers
• the lobes on the petals are about the size and colour of rice grains
• the inner bracts (below the flowers) are fringed with hairs.