Actinobole uliginosum

Actinobole uliginosum, commonly known as flannel cudweed, is a small annual herb in the family Asteraceae native to inland Australia, where it occurs across arid and semi-arid regions of Western Australia, South Australia, the Northern Territory, New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland. The plant typically forms low, prostrate to ascending rosettes only a few centimetres high, with the stems and oblanceolate to spathulate leaves densely covered in white woolly hairs that give the foliage a flannel-like appearance. Small flower heads are clustered in compact, woolly terminal aggregations among the upper leaves; each head contains numerous tiny tubular florets surrounded by papery, often brownish involucral bracts. The fruit is a small cypsela tipped with a pappus of plumose bristles. It is an ephemeral that germinates after winter and spring rains on sandy soils, clay pans and disturbed sites, and forms a minor component of post-rain ephemeral wildflower displays in the Australian arid zone.