Craspedia glauca, commonly known as billy buttons, [2] is an erect annual or perennial herb endemic to Tasmania. It is usually an annual herb with pale green leaves in a rosette and yellow button-like flowers on a tall stem.

Leaves oblanceolate to linear, 5-15cm or more long, sometimes green and almost glabrous, or hispid and glandular or covered with a loose layer of appressed white hairs. Flower clusters yellow, up to 3cm wide, sometimes to 3.5cm, summer. Temperate Australia from sea level to montane grassland.

C. glauca is a rosette-forming, borderline hardy, variable, evergreen perennial with linear, lance-shaped, or narrowly oblong, hairy, grey-green leaves and stiff, erect stems bearing dense, spherical heads of bright yellow to cream flowers in summer.

2023年10月9日 · Learn How to Grow Craspedia (Billy buttons) in this article. It looks great in garden borders. You can also use it in vases and floral arrangements. It is native to Australia and belongs to the daisy family. The plant forms the rosette of leaves and yellow spherical flowers that resemble small tennis balls and are very decorative.

Discover the flowering plant tree of life and the genomic data used to build it. Craspedia glauca (Labill.) Spreng. The native range of this species is SE. Australia. It grows primarily in the subtropical biome. Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024).

Discover the flowering plant tree of life and the genomic data used to build it. Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. de Salas, MF, Baker, ML (2022). A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 1 …

Craspedia are rosette-forming herbs with compound capitula borne on erect, unbranched scapes. The capitula are hemispherical to spherical heads of tiny flowers. Most species are perennial; one species is recorded as an annual (Craspedia haplorrhiza).

Uses: Ornamental perennial herb for native landscapes, rockeries, parks and reserves. Requires well-drained soils. Attracts nectar eating native butterflies. Often dies back over hot summers.

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Craspedia glauca (also called Billy Buttons, among many other common names) is a perennial herbaceous plant that can grow up to 30 cm in height. It is native to Australia and New Zealand and can be found in grasslands, meadows, and roadsides.