Gnephosis eriocarpa
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| Native camomile | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Gnephosis |
| Species: | G. eriocarpa |
| Binomial name | |
| Gnephosis eriocarpa | |
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Gnephosis eriocarpa, commonly known as native camomile,[2] is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a spreading forb with rounded flower heads and variable leaves.
Gnephosis eriocarpa is an annual, prostrate or spreading forb with woolly stems about 5–23 cm (2.0–9.1 in) long. Leaves are variable, 9–45 mm (0.35–1.77 in) long, 1.5–9 mm (0.059–0.354 in) wide and thickly covered with hairs. The flower heads are rounded to broadly egg-shaped, 5–12 mm (0.20–0.47 in) long and 5.5–13 mm (0.22–0.51 in) in diameter and outer bracts woolly. Flowering may occur any time of the year, often after heavy rainfall and the fruit is an achene about 1.1 mm (0.043 in) long densely covered in hairs.[2][3]