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Hoary Sunray

Leucochrysum albicans

Hoary Sunray
Photo: Melburnian, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Queensland to Victoria

About

Leucochrysum albicans, commonly known as hoary sunray, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a small perennial with grey leaves, white or yellow flower-heads and is endemic to Australia.

Where it grows

Hoary sunray is a widespread species found growing in moist, rocky alpine locations in woodlands and grasslands on nutrient poor soils in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Tasmania. Subspecies tricolor mainly grows in grassland or grassy woodland at altitudes between about 100 and 900 m (330 and 2,950 ft) in disjunct populations in Tasmania, Victoria and south-eastern New South Wales, although it has not been recorded this century in Victoria.

Other Leucochrysum plants

Alpine Sunray · Leucochrysum graminifolium · Leucochrysum molle · Leucochrysum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leucochrysum albicans by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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