Flower, seeds, and leaf. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Gundabook National Park, south of Bourke, NSW

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Dave Mallinson, Brewarrina, NSW

Flowering plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Gundabook National Park, south of Bourke, NSW

Common Name

Large Copper-wire Daisy, Grey Podolepis, Bright Podolepis

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Annual forb to 80cm tall.  Leaves basal and alternating up the stems, the stem leaves stem clasping.  Leaves 1-8cm long, 2-16mm wide, linear to flat, hairy on the upper surface, woolly on the lower surface.  Flowers with 20-40 yellow 'petals' and yellow centres.  Flower heads hemispherical to globular, borne singly or in open groups at the ends of the stems.  Rare Vic.

Description in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 664.

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