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Chrysocephalum pterochaetum
Perennial Sunray is a small, many-stemmed perennial herb from the dry outback and desert areas of Australia, with yellow daisy-type flowers that appear mostly through the year. It is grown only occasionally, and it needs full sun, very free-draining soil and very little water.
Chrysocephalum pterochaetum, known by the common name perennial sunray is a perennial herb native to outback and desert areas of Australia. A member of the Asteraceae, the daisy family. A small plant, 15 to 40 cm high with many stems. Leaves are linear to linear oblanceolate in shape, 10 to 30 mm long, 1 to 1.5 mm wide. Leaf surfaces are rough and glandular, and may have felty white hairs. Yellow flowers mostly form throughout the year, but often seen from June to October. Originally collected in 1851 near Kanyaka, South Australia. The habitat of this plant includes sand among rocks, in or near dry creek beds, exposed rocky hill slopes and sandy gibber. The specific epithet pterochaetum is derived from the Ancient Greek language, ptero (winged) and chaetum (hair).
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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.
