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Gnephosis cassiniana

Gnephosis cassiniana is a tiny annual daisy-family herb from Western Australia that grows in salty depressions and damp low ground. It is grown only as a curiosity in native plant collections and is best kept in its natural seasonal, saline-wet habitat or cultivated like other small Australian annuals.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep soil moist during its winter-spring growing season, then let it dry as it sets seed.
Soil
Saline or sandy loam with good drainage.
Temperature
10–25 °C; tolerates cool winters.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Western Australia

About

Gnephosis cassiniana is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect, glabrous, annual herb with sessile, mainly elliptic or egg-shaped leaves, compound heads of yellow flowers, and pink cypselas.

Where it grows

Gnephosis cassiniana grows in saline depressions and low wet areas in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Murchison and Yalgoo bioregions of Western Australia.

Other Gnephosis plants

Zigzag Gnephosis · Gnephosis angianthoides · Cobwebby Headed Gnephosis · Short Leaved Gnephosis · Gnephosis drummondii · Gnephosis eriocarpa · Gnephosis gynotricha · Gnephosis macrocephala · Gnephosis multiflora · Gnephosis newbeyi · Gnephosis setifera · Gnephosis tenuissima

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gnephosis cassiniana 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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