Vittadinia gracilis

Vittadinia gracilis, sometimes known as the woolly New Holland daisy or slender New Holland daisy, is a small, wiry perennial herb or low subshrub of the Asteraceae endemic to Australia, where it occurs widely across the inland and southern parts of the continent in open eucalypt woodlands, native grasslands, mallee and roadside verges on sandy or stony soils. It grows 10-40 cm tall, forming loose tufts of slender, much-branched ascending stems clothed in fine, soft hairs. The leaves are alternate, narrow, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 1-3 cm long and 1-3 mm wide, often three-toothed at the apex, somewhat greyish-green from a dense covering of short hairs. Numerous small, daisy-like flower heads 10-15 mm across are borne on slender peduncles at the tips of the branchlets through spring and summer, with a single row of mauve to pale-purple ray florets surrounding a yellow disc. The achenes are narrow, slightly compressed, finely hairy, and crowned by a long pappus of reddish-tinged barbellate bristles that aid wind dispersal across open arid landscapes.