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Image: Craspedia variabilis flowerhead8 (15061357453)

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Description: Native, cool season, perennial, erect herb to 50 cm tall. Leaves are basal and cauline, narrow-spathulate, 5–13 cm long, pale to olive-green, with glandular hairs and multi-septate hairs and with very sparse long fine hairs. Flowerheads are spherical compound heads 10–25 mm diam., with c. 40–100 partial heads; partial heads stalked, with 7–12 florets; scape yellowish to reddish and hairy. Florets are tubular and golden-yellow. Flowering is from early spring to early summer. Grows in sclerophyll forest, woodland and grassland.
Title: Craspedia variabilis flowerhead8 (15061357453)
Credit: Craspedia variabilis flowerhead8
Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia
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