Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Coronidium scorpioides

Flowering plants. Photographer Richard Hartland, Macedon, Vic

Flower heads. Photographer Don Wood, near Bermagui

Flowering plant. Photographer Arthur Chapman, Enfield State Park near Ballarat, Vic

Common name

Button everlasting

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, heath, grassland, and more or less disturbed sites. Widespread.

Notes

Perennial herb to 0.55 m high. Stems hairy and covered with minute glands. Leaves alternating up the stems, often in a basal rosette, mostly 2–10 cm long, 3–21 mm wide, moderately firm-textured; upper surface rough, sometimes also with fine cottony hairs; lower surface with cottony hairs, interspersed with numerous glands, margins flat to curved down, tips blunt to pointed, usually with a distinct mucro 0.5–1 mm long; margins flat to curved down.. Flower heads with many papery transversely wrinkled 'petals', and yellow centres. Outermost 'petals' dark brown, pale brown, or straw-coloured. Flower heads 14–35 mm in diameter, flat-topped, depressed-hemispherical, single. Flowering: spring-autumn.

Was Helichrysum scorpioides.

The population near Oberon does not fit easily into Coronidium gunnianum, Coronidium monticola, or Coronidium scorpioides (personal communication from Jackie Miles).

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=Coronidium~scorpioides (accessed 7 January, 2021)