Variable Billy-buttons

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Craspedia variabilis

Attractive tall perennial tufted perennial with one or more flower stems to 60 cm high with yellow flower balls 10-25 mm across. Narrow pale to olive green spoon-shaped leaves at base to 13 cm long and 5-13 mm wide, sparsely hairy, with smaller leaves along stem.

Details
Flora Type
Herbs
Former Scientific Name
Craspedia glauca
Other Common Names
Bachelors Buttons
Distinctive Features

Golden-yellow globular flowers held on long stalks over olive green hairy mostly basal leaves.
Biology

Perennial. Common and widespread in a variety of habitats but mostly in lowland grasslands and woodlands. Likes moist to boggy soils. Sensitive to moderate disturbance. Palatable to stock.
Native Status
Native
Flowering Time

Sep-Jan
Taxonomy
Phylum
Tracheophyta (Vascular Plants)
Class
Magnoliopsida (Flowering Plants)
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Craspedia
Species
variabilis

Source: Atlas of Living Australia

Attracts moths and small native bees. Spectacular in flower and makes a great rockery plant.

Interesting Facts
Native Status
Native