Leontopodium nivale

Species category

Flower, Weed

Common name

edelweiss

Diagnostic characters

Planting unit

AcheneAchene:
A dry, hard, one-chambered, one-seeded indehiscent fruit, as in buckwheat (Fagopyrum) or sunflower (Helianthus). The fruit wall is not united with the seed coat.

Shape

ObovateObovate:
Inverted egg shaped with apical end the broadest.

Size

  • Length 1–1.7 mm
  • Width 0.5–0.7 mm
  • Thickness 0.4–0.6 mm

Color

Brown

Texture

Finely reticulate and sparsely covered with very short hairs

Other structures

Few longitudinal lines

Identification notes

Some achenesAchene:
A dry, hard, one-chambered, one-seeded indehiscent fruit, as in buckwheat (Fagopyrum) or sunflower (Helianthus). The fruit wall is not united with the seed coat.
are oblanceolate.

Noxious weed seed categories

Not listed

AOSA examination list

Not included

Nomenclature

Family

Asteraceae

Valid name

Leontopodium nivale (Ten.) Hand.-Mazz.

Synonyms

Gnaphalium leontopodium L.
Leontopodium alpinum Cass.
Leontopodium alpinum Cass. subsp. alpinum

 Leontopodium nivale . Achenes that are finely reticulate and sparsely covered with very short hairs.
Leontopodium nivale. Achenes that are finely reticulate and sparsely covered with very short hairs.