Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Euryops chrysanthemoides

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, CSIRO dump area, Black Mountain, ACT

Spent flower, young seeds, and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Cudal

Common name

None

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Roadsides, disturbed sites, and moist places. Mainly north from Thirlmere. Doubtfully naturalised in the ACT. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Introduced shrub to 2 m high. Stems hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3.5–8 cm long, 10–20 mm wide, hairless except for occasional tufts of woolly hairs in the axils of the younger leaves, margins lobed. Flower heads yellow, with 8–15 'petals' each 14–18 mm long,, and yellow centres 3–5 mm in diameter, with many florets. Bracts surrounding the bases of the flower heads 8–15, 5–8 mm long. Flowers single or a few together. Flowers late autumn–winter. 

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Euryops~chrysanthemoides (accessed 8 January, 2021)