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Leptinella filicula
Mountain Cotula (Leptinella filicula) is a low, creeping perennial native to south-eastern Australia and Tasmania, found in moist, shady forest and mountain habitats. It grows well as a groundcover where soil stays moist and shaded.
Leptinella filicula, (previously Cotula filicula) also known as ferny buttons or mountain Cotula, is a perennial herb frequently found in wet shaded areas, on mountains and in rainforests across South-Eastern Australia and Tasmania. L. filicula is an angiosperm (flowering plant), in the family Asteraceae, the largest vascular plant family in Australia.
Used as a native groundcover in gardens in moist sites with some tolerance for sun and frost. Not often commercially available. Propagation possible from seed, cutting or division.
Leptinella filicula is distributed across South-Eastern Australia and Tasmania, and occurs mainly in moist and shady environments. This includes wet Eucalypt forest, as well as montane vegetation, cool temperate rainforest and sub-alpine grasslands and herbfields.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leptinella filicula 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.
