Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Chrysocephalum baxteri
Common name
Fringed Everlasting, White Everlasting
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Open sites in forest. Heath. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands, south from Merimbula.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.50 m high. Stems white-woolly. Leaves alternating up the stems, mostly 0.5–10 cm long, 0.5–2.5 mm wide, both surfaces grey-green and felty, tips pointed or with a small abrupt point, margins rolled down. Flower heads with narrow white (sometimes tinged brown or purple) petal-like bracts and yellow centres. Flower heads 10-30 mm in diameter overall, broadly bell-shaped. Flower heads single. Flowering: most of year but mainly spring.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Chrysocephalum~baxteri (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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