Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Argentipallium obtusifolium

Flwering plants. Photographer Don Wood, Ben Boyd National Park south of Eden

Back of flower head. Photographer Kevin Sparrow, Grampians, Vic

Common name

Blunt everlasting

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Woodland and heath. Coastal south from Tathra.

Notes

Perennial herb to 0.35 m high. Stems silvery-white with matted woolly hairs, more or less sticky from the underlying glandular hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.4–2.5 cm long, 1–3 mm wide, parallel sided, sticky, upper surface hairless, lower surface silvery-white woolly, margins curved down, tips blunt. Flower heads with white 'petals' 4–12 mm long, and yellow centres 10–30 mm in diameter, broadly bell shaped behind the ‘petals’. Flower heads single. Flowering: spring.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Argentipallium~obtusifolium  (accessed 3 January, 2021)