About Coronidium scorpioides (Labill.) Paul G.Wilson
Coronidium scorpioides, commonly known as the button everlasting, is a herbaceous perennial plant. It reaches 20 to 50 cm (8 to 19.5 in) in height, growing from a woody rootstock. Its unbranched, woolly stems grow vertically, and produce yellow flowerheads at their tops in spring. This species is distributed from the Gibraltar Range in northern New South Wales, south through eastern New South Wales into Victoria, and also occurs in southeastern South Australia and Tasmania. It grows on heavier, more fertile soils, including brown clay or clay-loam derived from basalt, or soil derived from sandstone-shale. Its natural habitats include open forest growing under trees such as Eucalyptus radiata (narrow-leaved peppermint), E. piperita (Sydney peppermint), E. fastigata (brown barrel), E. punctata (grey gum), E. viminalis (manna gum), and E. blaxlandii (Blaxland's stringybark). It also grows in more open woodland under Eucalyptus sclerophylla (scribbly gum) and Angophora bakeri (narrow-leaved apple). Coronidium scorpioides resprouts after bushfire, and some individual plants can begin flowering as quickly as 16 weeks after fire.
