Craspedia leucantha F.Muell. APNI* 
Description: Lanky, mostly glabrous herb, with scapes to 45 cm high; roots thick, spreading.
Leaves stem-clasping, bright green, glabrous or sparsely hairy with margins ± woolly; basal leaves closely overlapping and cream to red at the base, spathulate, 4–25 cm long, 5–25 mm wide; upper leaves lanceolate, to 13 cm long, 3–20 mm wide.
Compound heads hemispherical, 10–25 mm diam., with 20–50 partial heads; partial heads with 4–8 florets, main bract glabrous to woolly and with broad brown scarious margins; scape brown to purple-red, glabrous or loosely woolly upwards. Corollas creamy-white.
Achenes 1–3 mm long; pappus of 12–19 plumose hairs 3–5 mm long.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in seepage areas on stony slopes and creek banks, and below semi-permanent snow patches; in Kosciusko region.
NSW subdivisions: ST
Other Australian states: Vic.
Text by J. Everett & A. N. L. Doust
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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