Higher classification Daisy family | Scientific name Calocephalus aervoides Rank Species | |
Similar Daisy family, Asterales, Calocephalus, Leucophyta |
Calocephalus aervoides is a species of flowering plant in the aster family, Asteraceae, native to Western Australia. Its common name is woolly beauty-heads.
This species is a herb growing up to 15 centimetres tall. It produces yellow flowers in September and October. It grows on plains with loam and sandy soils over limestone substrates.
The species was first formally described by the botanist Ferdinand von Mueller as Pachysurus aervoides in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae in 1863.
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