| Scientific Name: | Acaena inermis 'Purpurea' |
| Common Name: | purple sheep's burr |
| Family Name: | Rosaceae |
| Origin: | Australia / New Zealand |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Ground cover, Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Horizontal, Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Alpine, Container planting, Ground cover, Mixed shrub border, Rock garden, Spring interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Odd-pinnate, Obovate, Orbicular, Dentate |
| Flowers: | Spike, White, Jun-Jul |
| Fruit: | Achene, (Accessory tissue), Brown, Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Mat forming sub-shrub with rhizomes and eventually runners; leaves alternate, pinnately compound, most 2-7cm long with 7-11(-15) ovate-orbicular leaflets, most 4-7mm long x 3-5mm wide (larger near the ends), margin dentate, little purple to greyish bronze to pale olive, nearly sessile (petiolules <1mm long); inflorescences, compact, head-like, round, 1-2cm wide, with about 20 apetalous flowers. | |