Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Xerochrysum subundulatum
Common name
Alpine everlasting
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Open woodland and moist alpine herbfields and grasslands, often on slopes. Mainly Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, ACT, and the ranges. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Annual rhizomatous herb to 0.6 m high, sometimes forming large clumps. Stems whitish woolly to cobwebby, or almost hairless. Leaves crowded at the base and alternating up the stems, 2.5–10 cm long, 3–22 mm wide, upper surface a different colour from lower surface, both surfaces finely rough and with sparse woolly or cobwebby hairs mostly on the margins, tips pointed, sometimes mucronate, bases stem-clasping. Flower heads with many shiny, papery, pointed, golden-orange, 'petals', the outer 'petals' golden brown or orange. Flower heads 20–30 mm long, 35–60 mm in diameter, single. Flowering: summer to early autumn.
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=Xerochrysum~subundulatum (accessed 8 February, 2021)
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