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Image: Pycnosorus globosus flowerhead1 (17796565360)

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Description: Native, cool season, perennial, stout, silvery-white herb with several flowering peduncles to 120 cm tall. Leaves are cauline and basal, linear, usually 10–30 cm long and 4–12 mm wide. Flowerheads are compound globose heads 8–35 mm diam; partial heads number 70–200, each with 3–6 florets. Corollas are yellow. Flowering is from early spring to summer. Grows in open moist, low-lying communities and on roadsides on heavy soil west of the tablelands.
Title: Pycnosorus globosus flowerhead1 (17796565360)
Credit: Pycnosorus globosus flowerhead1
Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia
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