Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Ammobium craspedioides
Common name
Yass daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and grassy areas. Tablelands, Western Slopes, and western Snowy Mountians from Lyndhurst (north east of Cowra) to south of Wagga Wagga, and east to NW of Crookwell. Mainly between Booroowa and the Tumut district.
Notes
Perennial herb to about 0.6 m high. Stems scarcely winged, more or less woolly. Basal leaves in a rosette, 3–12 cm long, 10–17 mm wide, upper surface hairy, lower surface white and woolly, tips pointed. Stem leaves few, smaller. Flower heads yellow, hemispherical, about 10–20 mm in diameter, with 0 petals, single. Florets yellow. Flowering: spring to summer.
Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10043 (accessed 3 January, 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ammobium~craspedioides (accessed 3 January, 2021)
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