Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Coronidium oxylepis subsp. lanatum

Flowering plant. Photographer Don Wood, between Araluen and Moruya

Flowering plant. Photographer Don Wood, Bruce Ridge Nature Reserve, ACT

Common name

Woolly pointed everlasting

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Dry forest and woodland. Coast, ranges, and tablelands, north of Bega. ACT and nearby.

Notes

Perennial herb with a woody rootstock, to 0.60 m high. Stems woolly. Leaves alternating up the stems, sometimes crowded at the base, 3-8.5 cm long, 6-14 mm wide, papery to somewhat fleshy, upper surface hairless to sparsely cottony, lower surface cottony to woolly, tips blunt to pointed. Flower heads with many papery yellow to straw-coloured or bronze stiff and shiny  'petals', and yellow centres. 'Petals' bend down at maturity. Flower heads 25-35 mm in diameter overall, hemispherical, single. Flowers Spring-Autumn.

Was Helichrysum collinum.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Coronidium~oxylepis (accessed 7 January, 2021)