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Gnephosis arachnoidea
Gnephosis arachnoidea is a small annual herb from arid and semi-arid Australia, grown as a novelty for its woolly stems and yellow-green flower heads. It needs full sun and well-drained soil, and is best sown or sown directly where it will grow.
Gnephosis arachnoides, commonly known as erect yellow-heads or cobwebby-headed gnephosis, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Australia. It has greenish-yellow flower heads at the ends of stems.
Erect yellow-heads grows in a variety of habitats including on sandy to clay soils, and rocky locations, sometimes in saline soils and is widespread in Western Australia, the south of the Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland and New South Wales.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gnephosis arachnoidea 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.
