Gnephosis drummondii is a small, low annual-type herb from southern Australia, growing up to about 6 cm tall with clusters of tiny yellow flower heads. It is a wild species of winter-wet flats and sandy depressions, rarely grown in gardens, so care is mostly about mimicking its native conditions.
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep soil moist during its winter-wet growing season and let it dry out in summer.
Soil
Sandy clay or sandy loam with good drainage.
Temperature
Mild temperate conditions; tolerates cool winters and dry summers, protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Australia
About
Gnephosis drummondii is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is a small, erect herb with lance-shaped to narrowly elliptic leaves, compound heads of 40 to 150 yellow flowers, and purplish cypselas.
Where it grows
This species of Gnephosis grows in winter-wet flats and granite depressions on sandy clay or sandy loam, sometimes in mallee eucalypt communities, yellow-box (Eucalyptus melliodora) and red-gum (Eucalyptus tereticornis) woodlands, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of Western Australia, the Eyre Peninsula and south-east parts of South Australia and to the north and west of the Grampians in Victoria.
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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.