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Dwarf cup flower is a small annual daisy from arid and semi-arid Australia, growing 3 to 10 cm tall with clusters of tiny yellow flower heads. It is a short-lived plant that completes its life cycle within one growing season, so it suits sunny, well-drained spots in dry climates.
Gnephosis tenuissima, commonly known as dwarf cup flower, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Australia. It is an annual herb with more or less erect branches, linear or narrowly elliptic leaves, compound heads of 20 to 80 yellow flowers, and oval, purplish cypselas.
Dwarf cup flower is widely distributed in Western Australia, South Australia, the Northern Territory, the western slopes and plains of New South Wales west of Warialda, and Queensland, but is rare in Victoria where it is confined to the far north-west of that state. It grows in a variety of soils, although often in saline soils.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gnephosis tenuissima 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.
