Lemon Beauty-heads- a native (Calocephalus citreus)

Family: Asteraceae (Daisy family).

Native.

Occurrence: A common grassland species.

Identification:

• it has oval clusters of lemon-yellow daisies
• all of the florets are tube florets - it does not have radiating petals
• the leaves are narrow and greyish along the flowering stalk.

Name. Calocephalus: beautiful + head, referring to the head of flowers; citrus: the citrus tree.

Photos:
1: Castlemaine. 2, 3: Montgomery Street grassland.