Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Craspedia adenophora
Common name
Sticky Billy-buttons
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
At high altitude. Heath, grassland, alpine herbfields, margins of alpine feldmark, and rocky outcrops. Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, and ACT.
Notes
Herb to 0.4 m high, sticky. Flower stalks straw-coloured, brown to red-brown, sticky, sometimes with appressed silky hairs. Leaves smell like mouldy oranges or citronella when rubbed. Leaves mostly basal, 6.5-18 cm long, 8-20 mm wide, upper surface dark green with dense glandular hairs, sometimes with loose appressed woolly hairs, particularly on the midrib, lower surface densely appressed woolly tomentose with short glandular hairs intermixed, tips pointed. Flower head usually yellow, sometimes pale yellow or orange, about 15-35 mm in diameter, with about 50–100 partial heads. Partial heads with 5-10 florets with 0 petals. Flower head hemispherical to globular, single.
Protected NSW.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic.
It appears to form hybrids with Craspedia maxgrayi where their ranges overlap.
VICFLORA description: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/df0af0fc-2edd-44b4-8f16-cf50cc95d0a8 (accessed 9 February 2021)
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