Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Calocephalus sonderi
Common name
Pale Beauty Heads
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Woodland, shrubland, grassland, and sites subject to flooding. Western Slopes.
Notes
Annual herb to 0.5 m tall. Stems woolly, grey to silvery. Leaves highly aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, sometimes the lowermost opposite each other, 0.5-6.3 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, hairy, often dilated and sheathing at the base or the bases of the leaves continuing down the stems, tips pointed. Flower heads yellow to yellow-orange or white, 6–12 mm long, compound, with about 50–100 individual flower heds, round to oval, with 0 petals, single at the tops of the stems. Flowering: spring–summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Calocephalus~sonderi (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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