Scientific Name: Leptinella longipes
Common Name: coast buttons
Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots
Family: Asteraceae
Form Description: Perennial herb with creeping hairless stems and erect leaves.
Flowers: Flower heads solitary, terminal on stems about as long as the leaves. Florets greenish-yellow.
Fruit: Achene – angled with thick spongy wings but with fewer hairs than Leptinella reptans.
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Habitat Notes
Locally frequent in brackish and saline swamps.
Site Tolerance
Waterlogged
Soil Tolerance
Loam, Nutrient-poor, Poorly-drained, Sandy
Propagation Calendar
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Sowing Month
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Cutting Month
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Propagation Method
Seed Information
Seed Collection
Grown from seed. Collect seed heads into paper bags and allow to dry. Do not collect when wet. Rub seed heads on fine wire screens or break up by hand. Sieve to clean.
Seed Treatment Method
Standard Scatter seed thinly on to damp potting mix. Hold seed in place by covering with more potting mix to approximately the depth of the seed size.
Seed Storage Life
Short
Seed Treatment Notes
Seed should be sown fresh and is very quick to germinate.
Cutting & Division Information
Can be grown from cuttings.