Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Coronidium waddelliae
Common name
Branched Everlasting
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, heath, grassy areas, and rocky sites. Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, and ACT. Tablelands and ranges north from Kosciuszko National Park and Morton National Park.
Notes
Multi-stemmed perennial or annual herb to 0.6 m high. Stems sticky hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, linear, to 5 cm long. 1-4 mm wide, upper surface sparsely hairy with glandular hairs, lower surface glandular and white-woolly, margins slightly curved down, tips pointed. Flower heads with many white 'petals' and yellow centres. 'Petals' often pink to reddish in bud or towards the tips. Flower heads hemispherical, to 45 mm in diameter, single.
Was Helichrysum adenophorum var. waddelliae.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Coronidium~waddelliae (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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