Golden Billy-buttons

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Pycnosorus chrysanthes

Erect showy herb with many tall unbranched dense white-woolly stems. A few narrow leaves at the base with leaves up the stem, all 1.5-10 cm long and olive green. Abundant golden yellow billy-button flowers, each 8-15 mm wide.

Details
Flora Type
Herbs
Former Scientific Name
Craspedia chrysantha
Distinctive Features

Many flowerstems, very showy.

Native Status
Native
Taxonomy
Phylum
Tracheophyta (Vascular Plants)
Class
Magnoliopsida (Flowering Plants)
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Pycnosorus
Species
chrysanthes

Source: Atlas of Living Australia

Annual. Tolerates water-logging for extended periods.

Interesting Facts
Similar Species

Pycnosorus is distinguished from the similar Craspedia species by looking at the tiny yellow flowers that make up the flowerhead. In Craspedia they are on a little stalk and in Pycnosorus there is no stem.

Native Status
Native