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Coronidium newcastlianum

Coronidium newcastlianum
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Coronidium newcastlianum is an erect perennial herb in the daisy family, native to north and northeast Queensland, grown mainly as a wildflower. It needs full sun and well-drained soil, as it naturally grows on rocky hills in eucalypt woodland.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings, especially in cool weather.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil; rocky or poor soil is suitable.
Temperature
Suited to warm, subtropical to dry tropical conditions; tolerates frost poorly, protect below about 0 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
NC. & NE. Queensland

About

Coronidium newcastlianum is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Queensland, Australia. It is an erect, perennial herb with lance-shaped or egg-shaped stem leaves with the narrower end towards the base and covered with felt-like leaves, heads of flowers with white or pale pink bracts, and cylindrical to oblong cypselas with a persistent pappus.

Where it grows

Coronidium newcastlianum is found along the Great Dividing Range in the Einasleigh Uplands bioregions of Queensland where it grows in eucalypt woodlands on rocky hills.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Coronidium newcastlianum 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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