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Yellow Button

Coronidium rupicola

Also called Honey Dots

Yellow Button
Photo: Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0

Yellow button (Coronidium rupicola) is a small, shrubby perennial herb from northeast Queensland, grown for its bright yellow button flowers that bloom throughout the year. It is a native wildflower of rocky, exposed sites, so it suits sunny, well-drained conditions.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established, letting the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, gritty or sandy soil; avoid heavy, waterlogged ground.
Temperature
15–30 °C; protect from frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
NE. Queensland

About

Coronidium rupicola, commonly known as yellow button, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Queensland, Australia. It is a small, upright, perennial herb with lance-shaped stem leaves, heads of yellow flowers with bronze-coloured bracts, and cylindrical to oblong cypselas with thread-like pappus bristles.

Where it grows

Yellow button is endemic to Queensland and grows on rocky coastlines, road verges, woodland and exposed ridges.

Other Coronidium plants

Branched Everlasting · Coronidium cymosum · Coronidium densifolium · Coronidium flavum · Coronidium fulvidum · Coronidium glutinosum · Pale Swamp Everlasting · Coronidium lanosum · Coronidium lanuginosum · Button Everlasting · Coronidium newcastlianum · Woolly Pointed Everlasting

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Coronidium rupicola 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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