Flowers and stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: A Lyne, Calperum SA

Flowers and stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, NE of Coolabah, NSW

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, NE of Coolabah, NSW

Common Name

Pale Beauty Heads, Yellow Poverty Weed

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Annual forb to 50cm tall.  Highly aromatic when crushed.  Leaves alternating up the stems, sometimes the lowermost opposite each other, lower leaves with a sheathing base.  Leaves 0.5-6.3cm long, 2-5mm wide, linear to flat, hairy, with a straight point.  Flower heads yellow or white, round to oval, with 0 petals. Flowers single at the ends of the stems. Rare SA.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 706

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Calocephalus~sonderi