Scientific name: Aphanes australis Rydb.
Common name: Slender Parsley-piert
Description
Habit: A small and slender, hairy annual, to 20 cm high.
Stems: Erect to semi-erect.
Leaves: Alternate, short-stalked, to 1 cm long, greyish green, irregularly and deeply palmately lobed, lobes narrow; with leafy, large stipules, divided halfway into oblong lobes.
Flowers: Green, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, in axillary heads, minute, partly concealed by stipules; calyx of 4 sepals, large teeth; stamens 1; carpel 1, deeply within calyx-tube; with hypanthium.
Fruits: A small achene, enclosed in calyx-tube and crowned by calyx-teeth that are fully enclosed within stipules; structure less than 2 mm long.
Habitat: Roadsides, walls, rocks on silicaceous rocks and soils.Distribution: Occasional and locally frequent.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No