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Golden Sunray

Hyalosperma glutinosum

Golden Sunray
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0

Golden Sunray is a small annual daisy-family herb native to southern and eastern Australia, growing 10 to 20 cm tall with yellow flowers from July to November. It is a desert and dry shrubland plant that needs full sun and very sharp drainage.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out fully between waterings; avoid wet roots.
Soil
Sandy, free-draining soil or gritty mix.
Temperature
10 to 30 °C; tolerates cool nights, protect from frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
S. & E. Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Hyalosperma glustinosum is a plant in the Asteraceae family, native to Australia and found in all mainland states and territories except the Northern Territory. (However NSW PlantNET also excludes Queensland.) It was first described in 1845 by Joachim Steetz.

It is an erect annual herb, growing from 10 to 20 cm high. Its yellow flowers are seen from July to November.

Other Hyalosperma plants

Hyalosperma cotula · Moss Sunray · Hyalosperma praecox · Hyalosperma simplex · Hyalosperma

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hyalosperma glutinosum 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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