Leiocarpa panaetioides
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Leiocarpa panaetioides (cultivated, labelled) Geelong Botanic Gardens Victoria, Australia
Photograph by Melburnian. Some rights reserved.
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WOOLY BUTTONS FACTS
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Common Name
Wooly Buttons
Description
Wooly Buttons is an erect perennial woody herbaceous plant or sub-shrub. It is well branched with silvery-grey foliage and covering of fine tangled hairs. The leaves are linear to oblong and about 10mm to 15mm long by 1mm to 1.5mm wide. It produces hemispherical heads of yellow flowers in a cluster about 2cm to 5cm long in spring and summer.
Height
60cm
Habitat
Grows in woodland, shrubland, grassland and floodplains on heavy soils
Distribution
Wooly Buttons is found in New South Wales south of Moree and west of Tamworth. Also found in Victoria.
Classification
| Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Order: | Asterales | | Family: | Asteraceae | | Genus: | Leiocarpa | | Species: | panaetioides | | Common Name: | Wooly Buttons |
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