Gardening with Indigenous Plants
Indigenous Plant Use
Identification & Control of Common Weeds
| Botanical Name: | Coronidium scorpioides 1 synonym: Helichrysum scorpioides |
| Common Name: | button everlasting , curling everlasting |
| Sold As: | Tube ($2.00) |
| Plant Type(s): | Ground Cover (up to 30 cm), Low Growing Shrub (30 cm to 1 m), Butterfly Attracting, Insect Attracting |
| Growing Conditions: | Full Sun, Partial Shade
Moist, Well Drained |
| Size (HxW): | 30 cm x 30 cm |
| Foliage: | Basal rosette of broad leaves becoming narrower up the stem, 3-9 cm x 3-8 mm, rough, sometimes nearly hairless above. |
| Flowers: | Single bright yellow button-like daisy flowerheads to 30 mm across, held on long stalks, outer bracts below flowerhead papery, dark brown, inner bracts yellow.. September-December |
| General Comments: | Erect unbranched woolly-hairy perennial herb spreading from underground stems. Matting plant for cottage gardens, borders, rockeries. Drift under established trees. Plants die back each year after flowering. When it starts to look a bity straggly, prune off two thirds of each stem and it will grow back within weeks. Frost tolerant. Both food for caterpillars and nectar for butterflies. |
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