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Gnephosis uniflora

Gnephosis uniflora is a small, erect annual herb from south-west Western Australia, growing to about 8 cm with yellow compound flower heads. It is a wild plant of saline depressions and is not a commonly grown garden or houseplant.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Grows in seasonal wetness near saline depressions; water sparingly and let soil dry between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or saline-tolerant soil.
Temperature
Mild Mediterranean-type conditions; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Western Australia

About

Gnephosis uniflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, annual herb with narrowly elliptic, elliptic to egg-shaped or lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and covered with scale-like hairs, compound heads of 50 to 150 yellow flowers, and oval, purplish cypselas.

Where it grows

Gnephosis uniflora grows near the edges of saline depressions in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee and Yalgoo bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Gnephosis plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gnephosis uniflora 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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