#woollyhead

Craspedia is from the Greek ‘Kraspedon’, meaning an edge, hem or border, because of the woolly fringes of the leaves of the type species. Uniflora refers to the single flowerhead.

C. uniflora was the first species described for the genus, in 1786. There are 22 other species (more if Pycnosorus is folded back into Craspedia), found in many habitats in Aotearoa and Australia.

AKA Woollyheads

The Asteraceae (AKA Compositaceae) is a gigantic plant family, rivalled only by the orchids. Nearly all of them have composite flowers, where hundreds of tiny flowers are massed together into a single inflorescence, with enlarged flowers resembling petals around the edge. The result is something that looks like a large single flower - flowers that include daisies, asters, sunflowers, and some of the most familiar wildflowers and weeds in the world. 

Then you have species like this Craspedia, that never bother with the fake petals around the edge.