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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Jupiter on June 27, 2015, 12:40:30 PM

Title: Asteraceae? Woodland ground cover...
Post by: Jupiter on June 27, 2015, 12:40:30 PM

Can someone put a name to this? I thought it was an Asarum, until it flowered...

Title: Re: Asteraceae? Woodland ground cover...
Post by: Maggi Young on June 27, 2015, 01:05:01 PM

Petasites    :-\    I'd have said Petasites fragrans but there should be lobes at the leaf stalks .....


 edit .... maybe P. paradoxus?

Title: Re: Asteraceae? Woodland ground cover...
Post by: Jupiter on June 27, 2015, 01:19:32 PM

Thanks Maggi, I think it is P. fragrans, but immature perhaps? I like it... I may get some more.

Title: Re: Asteraceae? Woodland ground cover...
Post by: fermi de Sousa on June 28, 2015, 02:14:23 PM

Hi Jamus,
You need to visit the Dandenongs to see how it carpets the road verges!
I mistook it for Coltsfoot once and introduced it to a garden where it went feral. We moved!
It responds well to Glyphosate so as long as you don't object to using weed killer you can (hopefully) keep it under control.
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: Asteraceae? Woodland ground cover...
Post by: Jupiter on July 04, 2015, 12:31:41 PM

Oh dear! I didn't know it could be invasive like that. It can't go far in the spot I have it and I need things which actually grow.