Podolepis gracilisCommon name: Slender Podolepis
Meaning of name: Podolepis is from the Greek words podos, meaning foot, and lepis, meaning scale. Gracilis is Latin for thin or slender.
Distribution: Occurs from Jurien Bay to Albany.
Description: A slender annual to 50 centimetres tall. The white flowers are produced from August to December.
References: Western Australian Plant Names and their Meanings, a Glossary. FA Sharr. 1996.
Flora of the Perth Region. NG Marchant, JR Wheeler, BL Rye, EM Bennett, NS Lander, TD Macfarlane. 1987.
Flowers can be pink as well as white and 9-20mm across.
A moth, Pollanisus sp, feeds from the flower.
Podolepis gracilis is usually branching with slightly woolly leaves measuring 100 x 20mm.
Flowers can carpet the ground.
