Coronidium scorpioides, commonly known as button everlasting, is a perennial, herbaceous shrub in the family Asteraceae and is found in eastern Australia. It has sessile, egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves, solitary heads of usually pale or lemon-yellow flowers and narrowly cylindrical achenes. It was previously known as Helichrysum scorpioides.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Button everlasting being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
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Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Coronidium
- Species
- Coronidium scorpioides
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