Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Craspedia costiniana

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Colin Totterdell, Kosciuszko National Park

Common name

A Billy-buttons

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Drier sites in alpine or high subalpine grassland and herbfield. Kosciuszko National Park.

Notes

Herb. Single hairy flower stalk to 0.5 m high. Leaves spoon-shaped, mainly basal, a few alternating up the stem, 2.5–16 cm long, 2–12 mm wide, surfaces and margins densely covered with glandular hairs and long fine hairs, hairless at the tips, tips blunt. Flower head  usually golden-yellow, sometimes pale yellow or orange, globular, 15–35 mm in diameter, with up to 100 partial heads; partial heads with 7–12 florets with 0 petals. Flower head single. Flowering: summer.

Protected NSW.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Craspedia~costiniana (accessed 7 January, 2021)