Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Leiocarpa panaetioides

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Denise Grieg, W of Quambone, NSW

Common name

Woolly Buttons

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Woodland, shrubland, and grassland, usually on floodplains. Western Slopes.

Notes

Perennial herb or shrub to 0.6 m tall, usually with a woody base. Stems sparsely to densely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, mostly 1-1.5 cm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, flat to curved in cross section, densely hairy, margins sometimes curved down, bases continuing down the stems. tips pointed. Flower heads yellow, 8–10 mm in diameter, with many florets, 0 petals, more or less hemispherical, borne singly at the tops of the stems. Bodies of the 'seeds' hairy.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leiocarpa~panaetioides (accessed 17 January, 2021)