Rhodanthe anthemoides flowerhead13 ANBG ST - Flickr - Macleay Grass Man

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Description: Native, cool season to yearlong green perennial, bushy, many-stemmed herb. Stems are slender, hairless to sparsely and finely pubescent and to 30 cm tall. Leaves are often crowded, thick, linear to narrow-oblong and about 10 mm long, with sessile sunken globose glands. Heads are solitary and terminal. Outer and intermediate involucral bracts are broad-elliptic, ciliate, pale brown with a purple midrib; inner involucral bracts have an elliptic white lamina. Florets are numerous, yellow and tubular. Flowering is mostly from early spring to mid-summer. Grows predominantly in montane rocky areas, often on sandy soils. Date: 28 August 2016, 09:50. Source: Rhodanthe anthemoides flowerhead13 ANBG ST. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia.