About Chrysocephalum baxteri (A.Cunn. ex DC.) Anderb.
Chrysocephalum baxteri, commonly called the fringed everlasting, is a perennial herb native to southern Australia. It belongs to Asteraceae, the daisy family. This species grows in low heath country and sclerophyll forest. It is a small plant, reaching 10 to 40 cm in height and producing many stems. Its leaves are linear in shape, measuring 4 to 30 mm long and 0.5 to 2.5 mm wide. Both surfaces of the leaves are felty grey-green. It produces white flowers mostly during spring and summer. Collected by William Baxter, the species was first described in scientific literature as Helichrysum baxteri in 1838, in Augustin Pyramus de Candolle’s Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.
