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Amsinckia lycopsoides Lehm.
Bugloss Fiddle-neck

Reference
Del.Sem.Hort.Bot.Hamburg. 3,7 (1831)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Alien to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Winter-growing annual, herb, to 0.5 m high, plant covered in stiff hairs. Fl. yellow-orange, Nov. Occasionally found as weed of cereal crops.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 16 September 1997

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt.
IBRA Subregions
Merredin.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Merredin, Tammin, Wyalkatchem.