Branched Everlasting

Coronidium adenophorum is an erect, single-stemmed annual or biennial herb that typically grows to a height of 50 cm (20 in) and has stems covered with glandular hairs. Its leaves are sessile, linear, 60 mm (2.4 in) long and covered with glandular hairs. The flowers are borne in a hemispherical head 45 mm (1.8 in) in diameter with white involucral bracts at the base, the outer bracts are sessile, the intermediate bracts narrowly oblong and the innermost bracts are shorter and prominently covered with soft hairs. Flowering occurs between October and March, and the cypselas are about 1.5 mm (0.059 in) long with thread-like pappus bristles.

Branched everlasting is found on Kangaroo Island, in the Murray–Darling basin and the south-east of South Australia, in dune mallee in the Big Desert south of Murrayville and in heathy woodland on Mt Abrupt in the Grampians.