Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pycnosorus chrysanthus
Common name
Golden Billy-buttons
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Woodland, shrubland, and grassland, in moist places. Western Slopes.
Notes
Annual herb to about 0.6 m tall. Stems densely white-woolly. Basal leaves few, soon withering. Stem leaves alternating up the stems, 1-10 cm long, 1-7 mm wide, upper surface olive-green to brown, becoming hairless, lower surface often paler, white woolly with dense fine hairs. particularly on the margins and the main vein, tips pointed and gland-tipped. Flower heads compound, yellow, globular to oval, 9–20 mm long, 8–15 mm in diameter, with 50–100 partial heads. Partial heads with 3–7 florets, 0 petals. Flower heads single. Flowering: mostly spring and summer.
Pycnosorus chrysanthes in PlantNET.
Protected NSW (as Pycnosorus spp.).
PlantNET description: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pycnosorus~chrysanthes (accessed 20 April 2021)
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