Button Wrinklewort
Rutidosis leptorhynchoides
Family Asteraceae
About
Rutidosis leptorrhynchoides, commonly known as button wrinklewort, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is an upright, tufted, perennial herb with bright green leaves and yellow button-shaped flowers.
How to spot it
Rutidosis leptorrhynchoides is a perennial herb with a simple or multi-branched from a woody rootstock, 15–30 cm (5.9–11.8 in) high, leafy, usually stems more or less smooth except those toward the base may be more or less woolly. The leaves are mostly borne on aerial stems, narrow, linear, bright green, 15–35 mm (0.59–1.38 in) long, 0.5–1.5 mm (0.020–0.059 in) wide, margins rolled under, mostly smooth and the apex pointed. Each stem has one yellow flower, 8–15 mm (0.31–0.59 in) in diameter made
Documented on these trails
Found in
- Black Mountain Nature Reserve, Canberra Nature Park — Canberra & Namadgi National Park hikes