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Mountain cassinia is a spreading, sticky-leaved shrub native to alpine and subalpine mountain country in south-eastern Australia. It is a wild species of cold, high-altitude habitats and is not a common garden plant.
Cassinia monticola commonly known as mountain cassinia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to mountain areas of south-eastern Australia. It is a spreading shrub with sticky, narrow linear to narrow lance-shaped leaves, and bronze-coloured to greenish-cream heads of flowers arranged in a dense, round-topped corymb.
Mountain cassinia grows in herbfield, grassland and shrubland in alpine and subalpine areas above 1,200 m (3,900 ft) in the Snowy Mountains of southern New South Wales and mountain areas of north-eastern Victoria.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cassinia monticola 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.
