A small, low-growing native New Zealand shrub with trailing stems and small white daisy-like flower heads, found from lowland grasslands to alpine slopes. It suits rock gardens and open, well-drained ground where it can spread.
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; let the top of the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, gritty or sandy soil; tolerates poor and rocky ground.
Temperature
Hardy in cool temperate conditions; protect from prolonged frost in very cold climates.
How easy
Easy
Native range
New Zealand
Climate
temperate
About
Anaphalioides bellidioides, commonly known as the New Zealand everlasting daisy, is a native vascular shrub in the genus Anaphalioides, found distributed throughout New Zealand.
Where it grows
Anaphalioides bellidioides is commonly found in many environments from mountainous habitats to lower subalpine grasslands, where vegetation is quite open or at a low density. This includes in "scrub, tussock grasslands, riverbed and morainic gravels, roadsides, burned-over forests, rock outcrops and ultrabasic soils of the mineral belts".
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Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.