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Botanical details
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Genus
Acaena
- Genus description
Acaena can be evergreen perennials or subshrubs with pinnate leaves with dentate leaflets. Tiny flowers are carried in a dense rounded head or spike, followed by attractive burr-like fruiting heads
- Name status
Correct
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