Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Craspedia maxgrayi

Common name

Woolly Billy-buttons

Family

Asteraceae 

Where found

Alpine herbfields and drier areas in alpine and occasionally subalpine grassland. Kosciuszko National Park.

Notes

 Herb to 0.5 m high, white woolly. Leaves mainly basal, 5–15 cm long, 5–30 mm wide, both surfaces, and the margins, silvery-white and woolly. Flower head yellow, 25–45 mm in diameter, with about 70–120 partial heads; partial heads with 9–11 florets with 0 petals. Flower head globular, single. Flowering: summer.

It appears to form hybrids with Craspedia adenophora where their ranges overlap.

Protected NSW. Vulnerable Vic.

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