Leucochrysum albicans

Leucochrysum albicans (A.Cunn.) Paul G.Wilson (Asteraceae) is a tufted perennial or short-lived perennial herb of grasslands, grassy woodlands, and rocky outcrops across south-eastern Australia, growing 15–40 cm tall from a woody rootstock. The whole plant is densely white-woolly, giving it a silvery appearance. Leaves are mostly basal, simple, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 3–10 cm long and 2–8 mm wide, with margins often inrolled; cauline leaves are smaller and scattered along the slender, leafless or nearly leafless flowering stems. Each stem bears a solitary terminal capitulum 2–4 cm across, with conspicuous papery white, lemon-yellow, or golden-yellow involucral bracts arranged in many rows surrounding a central disc of bright yellow tubular florets. Achenes are small and cylindric, crowned by a pappus of plumose bristles. Several intergrading subspecies have been recognised. Flowering chiefly occurs in spring and early summer.