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Craspedia sp
Craspedia is a genus of daisies commonly known as billy buttons or woollyheads. Craspedia are rosette-forming herbs with secondarily compound capitula (glomerules) that are borne on erect, unbranched scapes. The glomerules or flower-heads are hemispherical to spherical (like pom poms) and are formed of a massive aggregation of tiny flowers (florets). Most species are perennial with one species recorded as annual. Twenty three-species are currently accepted, six from New Zealand and 17 from Australia. Leaves have considerable variation in form, they range in colour from white through to grass green, and are often covered in fine hairs.
They are native to Australia and New Zealand where they grow in a variety of habitats from sea level to the alps. In New Zealand, Craspedia is found south from about East Cape in the North Island to Stewart Island. It also occurs on Campbell Island 660 km S of Stewart Island, and the Chatham Islands, 800 km E of East Cape.
Spotted on Oct 15, 2012
Submitted on Oct 18, 2012
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