Xerochrysum viscosum plant1 - Flickr - Macleay Grass Man

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Description: Native, cool season, usually annual, sometimes perennial, erect, viscid herb 20–80 cm tall. Stems are usually much-branched and strongly scabrous with stiff hairs or minute prickles. Leaves are narrow-oblanceolate to lanceolate or linear, mostly 1–8 cm long and 1–5 mm wide ( rarely to 10 mm). Heads are terminal on all branchlets, singly or up to 3 together and 2–3 cm diam. Involucral bracts are scarious; outermost bracts brownish yellow, intermediate bracts the longest and bright yellow. Florets are yellow and tubular. Achenes are oblong, 4-angled and about 2 mm long, with a pappus of golden barbellate bristles. Flowering is mostly in spring. Grows in open woodland and sclerophyll forest, usually on sandy to sandy loam soils. Date: 12 September 2015, 08:00. Source: Xerochrysum viscosum plant1. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia.