Xerochrysum viscosum

Xerochrysum viscosum, the sticky everlasting or shiny everlasting, is an erect perennial herb of the family Asteraceae, native to grasslands, open eucalypt forest and rocky slopes of southeastern Australia. Plants reach 30 to 80 centimetres in height with several stiff stems arising from a woody base. The stems, leaves and involucres are conspicuously sticky-glandular and pleasantly aromatic when crushed — features that give the species its epithet. Leaves are alternate, narrowly lanceolate to linear, 3 to 10 centimetres long, with entire margins and a dark green glossy upper surface contrasted with a paler, glandular underside. Flower heads are solitary at the stem tips and conspicuous, with numerous papery, golden-yellow involucral bracts arranged in many rows surrounding a central yellow disc of tiny tubular florets; the bracts retain their colour when dried, giving rise to the everlasting name. Fruits are small cypselae bearing a bristly pappus.