Woolly Beauty-heads | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Genus: | Calocephalus |
Species: | C. aervoides |
Binomial name | |
Calocephalus aervoides (F.Muell.) Benth. |
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Calocephalus aervoides (Woolly Beauty-heads) is a herb in the family Asteraceae. It produces yellow flowers from September to October (spring) in its native range.
The species, which is endemic to Western Australia, was first formally described by botanist Ferdinand von Mueller and named Pachysurus aervoides in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae in 1863.