Craspedia lamicola
J.Everett & Joy Thomps. Bog Billy-buttonsStout flaccid-leaved herb with a single flowering scape 20-50 cm high; roots thick, tomentose. Leaves basal and cauline, decreasing in size up the scape, broadly spathulate, 4–25 cm long, 1–4 cm wide, obtuse, attenuate at base, broadly stem-clasping, obtuse, midrib and 2 longitudinal veins evident, with a few multi-septate hairs and long fine hairs sparsely scattered over the surface (sometimes denser on margins); margins of upper leaves often undulate. Inflorescence yellow, globose, 1.5–3.5 cm diam. with up to 90 capitula; scape often tinged red, densely woolly especially just below the head. Capitula with 7–11 florets; bract subtending capitulum broadly triangular to ovate, margins membranous, brown or colourless, stereome ovate, glandular, with silky hairs. Cypselas 1–2.5 mm long; pappus 4–6 mm long. Flowers summer.
VAlp. Also NSW. Rare in alpine bogs and wet heathlands on the Bogong High Plains and at a few alpine sites further east (e.g. Mt Buller and Lake Mountain).
Putatively hybridises with other Craspedia species. Putative hybrids with C. aurantia have somewhat orange flowers (McDougall & Walsh 2008).
SpinningMcDougall, K.L.; Walsh, N.G. (2008). A conspectus of high-country Craspedia (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae) of mainland south-eastern Australia. . Muelleria 26(2): 3–10.
