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Angianthus brachypappus

Angianthus brachypappus
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Angianthus brachypappus, spreading angianthus or spreading cup-flower, is a small hairy annual herb of the daisy family from south-eastern Australia. It is a wild species of sandy open ground rather than a garden plant, so it is rarely cultivated.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry between waterings, as it grows naturally in dry sandy ground.
Soil
Free-draining sandy soil.
Native range
E. & SE. Australia

About

Angianthus brachypappus, commonly known as spreading angianthus or spreading cup-flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is an erect or low-lying annual herb with woolly, narrowly lance-shaped, narrowly elliptic to more or less linear leaves, oval or elliptic compound heads of yellow flowers, and oval achenes with a bristly pappus.

Where it grows

This species of Angianthus grows in sandy soils in open areas, sometimes near saline depressions, in north-eastern South Australia, western New South Wales and north-western Victoria.

Other Angianthus plants

Hook Leaf Angianthus · Angianthus conocephalus · Angianthus cornutus · Coast Angianthus · Angianthus cyathifer · Angianthus drummondii · Angianthus glabratus · Angianthus globuliformis · Angianthus halophilus · Small Headed Angianthus · Angianthus micropodioides · Cone Spike Angianthus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Angianthus brachypappus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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.

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