Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Craspedia gracilis
Common name
A Billy-buttons
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Heath, woodland, among grasses on creek flats, and bogs. Kosciuszko National Park. Tablelands and the western edge of the ranges east and south of the ACT. Not recorded from the ACT.
Notes
Silver-grey herb. Single flower stalk, cream to red, glandular and hairy at the base, woolly upwards, to 0.65 m high. Leaves mainly basal, a few alternating up the stem, 5–20 cm long, 5–20 mm wide, surfaces silvery-grey with dense, long, fine and appressed hairs, tips pointed. upper surface of the uppermost leaves often almost hairless, or grey-green and sparsely hairy with fine appressed hairs; margins woolly. Flower head yellow, globular to hemispherical, 10–25 mm in diameter, with about 25–100 partial heads; partial heads with 6–8 florets with 0 petals. Flower head globular to hemispherical, single. Flowering: summer.
Protected NSW.
PlantNET description (as Craspedia coolaminica): http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Craspedia~coolaminica (accessed 30 April 2021)
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