Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Craspedia maxgrayi
Common name
Woolly Billy-buttons
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Alpine herbfields and drier areas in alpine and occasionally subalpine grassland. Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Herb to 0.5 m high, white woolly. Leaves mainly basal, 5–15 cm long, 5–30 mm wide, both surfaces, and the margins, silvery-white and woolly. Flower head yellow, 25–45 mm in diameter, with about 70–120 partial heads; partial heads with 9–11 florets with 0 petals. Flower head globular, single. Flowering: summer.
It appears to form hybrids with Craspedia adenophora where their ranges overlap.
Protected NSW. Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Craspedia~maxgrayi (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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