Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Helichrysum leucopsideum
Common name
Satin everlasting
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Dry forest, mallee, woodland, shrubland, and grassland. Coast, ranges, and tablelands. Rarely elsewhere.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.5 m tall, with a woody rhizome or rootstock. Fruit fleshy. Stems sparsely to densely woolly, slightly sticky. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.5-6 cm long, 1-10 mm wide, upper surface green, hairless to sparsely hairy, sometimes rough, lower surface densely woolly, both surfaces slightly sticky, margins curved down, tips blunt or pointed, with a mucro. Flower heads 25–35 mm in diameter with a yellow to orange centre, and many papery white (sometimes tinged pink) 'petals'. Flower heads behind the 'petals' hemispherical. Flower heads usually single, sometimes 2-3 together. Flowers Spring to Summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Helichrysum~leucopsideum (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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