Euchiton sphaericus

Euchiton sphaericus, sometimes called star cudweed or globe cudweed, is a small annual or short-lived perennial herb in the family Asteraceae, widely distributed in Australia, New Zealand, and parts of Southeast Asia, where it grows on disturbed ground, lawns, grassy roadsides and open forest. It forms a basal rosette of narrow, oblanceolate to linear leaves that are green and slightly cobwebby above and densely white-woolly beneath, from which one or several slender, erect, white-tomentose flowering stems rise 10-40 cm tall, bearing a few stem-leaves. The inflorescence is a dense, globose to subglobose head 5-12 mm across composed of numerous tiny capitula of straw-coloured tubular florets surrounded by papery brownish bracts. Small achenes bearing a pappus of fine white bristles are dispersed by wind.