Grey Billy-buttons
Craspedia canens
Herb with stiff green to purplish woolly lance-shaped flower stems (usually one but up to five), to 65 cm. Yellow globular flowers to 25 mm across. Leaves mainly at base in a rosette, 6-25 cm long, 5-15 mm wide, evenly grey-green with long fine white hairs on top, sparsely whitish hairy underneath.
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Flora Type | Herbs |
| Distinctive Features | Yellow globular flowers held on long stalks over hairy grey-green mostly basal leaves. |
| Biology | Perennial. Widespread in wet or dry situations, and in swamps, mostly in the lowlands. |
| Native Status | Native |
| Flowering Time | Aug-Feb |
| Taxonomy | |
|---|---|
| Phylum | Tracheophyta (Vascular Plants) |
| Class | Magnoliopsida (Flowering Plants) |
| Order | Asterales |
| Family | Asteraceae |
| Genus | Craspedia |
| Species | canens |
This species has several forms, and requires further investigation.
| 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 |