Cotula leptalea leaves

The leaves of the seedling Cotula leptalea plants in picture grow broad-stalked and straight but angled from the ground. The stalks are pale and flat-surfaced to channelled above, ending in a few finger-like lobes spreading in a flat plane, given sufficient development time. The soft leaves of the species are said to be hairy, deeply to roundly lobed, becoming 1 cm to 4 cm long.

Yellow, disc-shaped flowerheads are produced rather promptly from the centre of these young plants, judged from the greenish, nearly globular buds near the ground and the open flowerhead (Le Roux, et al, 2005; iNaturalist).