Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Helichrysum leucopsideum

Common name

Satin everlasting

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Dry forest, mallee, woodland, shrubland, and grassland. Coast, ranges, and tablelands. Rarely elsewhere.

Notes

Perennial herb to 0.5 m tall, with a woody rhizome or rootstock. Fruit fleshy. Stems sparsely to densely woolly, slightly sticky. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.5-6 cm long, 1-10 mm wide, upper surface green, hairless to sparsely hairy, sometimes rough, lower surface densely woolly, both surfaces slightly sticky, margins curved down, tips blunt or pointed, with a mucro. Flower heads 25–35 mm in diameter with a yellow to orange centre, and many papery white (sometimes tinged pink) 'petals'. Flower heads behind the 'petals' hemispherical. Flower heads usually single, sometimes 2-3 together. Flowers Spring to Summer.

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Helichrysum~leucopsideum  (accessed 19 January, 2021)