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Coronidium scorpioides
Button everlasting is a small perennial herb from eastern Australia and Tasmania, growing 5 to 55 cm high from a basal rosette, with papery yellow flower heads. It is a native wildflower of open eucalypt forest and woodland rather than a common garden plant.
Coronidium scorpioides, commonly known as button everlasting, is a perennial, herbaceous shrub in the family Asteraceae and is found in eastern Australia. It has sessile, egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves, solitary heads of usually pale or lemon-yellow flowers and narrowly cylindrical achenes. It was previously known as Helichrysum scorpioides.
Coronidium scorpioides is widespread and common from near the Queensland-New South Wales border, through Victoria to Port Lincoln in South Australia as well as in Tasmania. It grows on heavier more fertile soils, such as brown clay or clay-loam, derived from basalt, or sandstone-shale, in open forest under such trees as narrow-leaved peppermint (Eucalyptus radiata), Sydney peppermint (E. piperita), brown barrel (E. fastigata), grey gum (E. punctata), manna gum (E. viminalis) or Blaxland's stringybark (E. blaxlandii), or in more open woodland under scribbly gum (Eucalyptus sclerophylla) and narrow-leaved apple (Angophora bakeri).
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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.
