Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Craspedia canens
Common name
Grey billy-buttons
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Forest, heath, grassland, and bordering and in swamps. Mainly in the ranges and mountainous parts of the tablelands. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Herb to 0.65 m high. Flower stalks 1, or occasionally up to 5, green to purplish, covered with minute glands and often woolly with long fine hairs. Leaves mainly basal, a few alternating up the stems, 6–25 cm long, 5–15 mm wide, upper surface evenly grey-green with long fine white hairs, or the hairs confined to the main veins and margins, minute glandular hairs sometimes present; lower surface sparsely whitish hairy, occasionally with minute glandular hairs, tips blunt to broadly pointed. Flower heads yellow, globular to hemisperical, 13–25 mm in diameter, with about 100 partial heads; partial heads with 5–9 florets with 0 petals. Flowering: early spring to summer.
Protected NSW.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Endangered Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Craspedia~canens (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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