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Native, cool season, usually annual, erect herb, 20–80 cm tall. Stems are scabrous-hairy and have minutely glandular hairs. Leaves are oblanceolate or narrow-elliptic to lanceolate, mostly 1.5–10 cm long, 5–20 mm wide and scabrous-pubescent, especially on margins. Heads are terminal on all branchlets, forming irregular leafy flowerheads. Heads are 2.5–3 cm diam.; involucral bracts are scarious, pale yellow to bright-yellow or rarely white, outer ones often streaked reddish or brown. Florets are yellow and tubular. Achenes are 3.5 mm long and have a pappus of many golden bristles.
Flowering is mostly in spring. Grows in open woodland or forest, usually on sandy to sandy loam soils.
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Xerochrysum bracteatum head9
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Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia
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