Hairy Cup-flower: Tiny Plant in Flower

Hairy Cup-flower (Angianthus tomentosus)

Class:

Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)

Order:

Sunflowers (Asterales)

Family:

Daisy (Asteraceae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Hairy Cup-flower (Angianthus tomentosus)

This Photo:

🔍Tiny Plant in Flower🔎

Thank you Tony and Jenny Dominelli for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Riverland and elsewhere
For years we thought these were Lemon Beauty Heads (Calocephalus citreus).
But they flower at different times of the year.
We suspect, due to the dry conditions, they are much smaller than specimens we've seen elsewhere, hence their flower heads are sometimes round rather than elongated.

This species is classed as

LC (Least Concern)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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