Calocephalus aervoides

Woolly Beauty-heads
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.
Synonyms
  • Leucophyta aervoides (F.Muell.) Kuntze
  • Pachysurus aervoides F.Muell.

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.

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