Growing in a roadside drain east of Leeton. Native warm-season perennial herb. Stems are annual, scabrous with hooked hairs, 15–30 cm tall and arise from underground stolons. Leaves are mostly alternate and usually 20–40 mm long; margins are entire or toothed to irregularly pinnatifid and grey-green. Flowers occur in 3–5-flowered clusters with leaf-like bracts. Petals are 2.1–3 mm long and green to red. Fruit are globose to pyriform and mostly 2.5–3.5 mm long. Occurs in disturbed sites, common on agricultural lands especially around creeks on heavy soils in seasonally inundated areas. These plants were in a roadside drain that had just dried out.
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