Flower buds and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Plant. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, south coast, NSW

Flowering stems. Photo: Don Wood, ACT

Common Name

Yellow Buttons, Common Everlasting

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Perennial forb 7-60cm tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, often stem clasping, 1-6cm long, 1-25mm wide, flat, hairy, often sticky, edges flat or curved downwards, tips pointed, or blunt with a point. Flower heads yellow, slightly to strongly tinged brown, occasionally white tinged pink, with many papery ‘petals’, bell-shaped, several to many flower heads in compact clusters at the ends of the stems.

Description and photo (as Helichrysum apiculatum) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 701

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