Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Coronidium rutidolepis

Flowering plant. Photographer Don Wood, Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens north of Moruya

Common name

Pale everlasting

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Mostly moist forest and rainforest. Coast and ranges north from Morton National Park.

Notes

Perennial herb to 0.5 m tall or sprawling, rhizomatous. Stems hairy with scattered glands. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2.5-7 cm long, 1.5-15 mm wide, papery, bases somewhat stem-clasping, and sometimes with ear shaped lobes, upper surface finely rough with scattered glands and otherwise hairless or cottony; lower surface smooth, with abundant glands, margins flat to rolled down, tips tapering to a mucro 1.5 mm long. Flower heads with many pale to brownish yellow, transversely wrinkled, 'petals', and yellow centres. Flower heads 15-18 mm in diameter, almost globular, single. Flowers December to June.

Was Helichrysum rutidolepis.

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