1 "Short-lived plant with a single tap-root, widespread in arid inland areas of the Australian mainland" "Craspedia haplorrhiza" 1 "Perennial plant with many secondary roots" 2 2 "Flowers white" 3 2 "Flowers yellow or orange" 8 3 "Scapes = 22 cm tall, rosette leaves = 80 x 4 mm, glomerules usually <= 15 mm diam." 4 3 "Scapes, leaves and glomerules usually larger (examine several specimens)" 5 4 "Leaves with variable indumentum but upper leaf side usually not woolly, Tasmanian highlands" "Craspedia glabrata" 4 "Both leaf surfaces densely woolly, mainland alpine areas" "Craspedia alba" 5 "At least the abaxial leaf surfaces with woolly hairs" "Craspedia macrocephala" 5 "Leaf surfaces glabrous or with septate or glandular hairs but without woolly hairs" 6 6 "Leaf surfaces glabrous, rosette leaves ~5-20 mm wide, alpine mainland species" "Craspedia leucantha" 6 "Leaf surfaces with septate hairs, rosette leaves ~(10-)13-36 mm wide, coastal Tasmanian species" 7 7 "Rosette leaves 55-190 x 13-36 mm, local endemic of Preminghana (Mt Cameron West)" "Craspedia preminghana" 7 "Rosette leaves 100-180 x (10-)15-22 mm, southeast of Tasmania" "Craspedia cynurica" 8 "At least the abaxial leaf surfaces with numerous woolly hairs" 9 8 "Leaf surfaces glabrous or with septate or glandular hairs but without woolly hairs (rarely few hairs with a robust septate base and a thin apex especially on the central vein, or woolly hairs forming a fringe restricted to the leaf margins)" 13 9 "Leaves discolorous with abaxial surfaces more densely hairy than the adaxial ones, sticky-glandular, often aromatic when crushed with a scent reminiscent of orange peel" "Craspedia adenophora" 9 "Leaves discolourous or concolorous, not sticky-glandular" 10 10 "Robust plants with very densely white-woolly leaves (at least on the abaxial surfaces), glomerules (25-)30-40 mm diam., alpine mainland species" "Craspedia maxgrayi" 10 "Small to robust plants with sparsely to densely silvery grey-woolly leaf surfaces, glomerules 12-30 mm diam." 11 11 "Leaves discolourous with abaxial surfaces woolly and adaxial surfaces glabrous, Western Australia" "Craspedia sp. Waterloo (G.J. Keighery 13724) WA Herbarium" 11 "Leaves usually +/- concolourous with woolly hairs on both surfaces, eastern Australia or Tasmania" 12 12 "Rosette leaves sparsely to densely hairy, with two somewhat indistinct arching secondary veins, lowland" "Craspedia canens" 12 "Rosette leaves moderately to densely hairy, with two or four very distinct secondary veins running parallel to the central vein, subalpine" "Craspedia gracilis" 13 "Leaves glabrous or very sparsely hairy, plants usually tall (up to 75 cm) with rosette leaves often > 15 cm on the mainland but smaller in Tasmania, lowland" 14 13 "Leaves with septate hairs or, if glabrous on the surface, an alpine species; plants usually smaller (to 50 cm or less) with most rosette leaves < 15 cm" 15 14 "Growing in sandy areas in Western Australia" "Craspedia sp. Yalgorup National Park (G.J. Keighery 14449) WA Herbarium" 14 "Growing in swamps and drainage lines in eastern Australia from southernmost Queensland to South Australia and Tasmania" "Craspedia paludicola" 15 "Rosette leaves with leaf bases broadly attenuate and (2-)3-10(-20) mm wide at base, subalpine to alpine mainland species" 16 15 "Rosette leaves with leaf bases long-attenuate and 1.5-4.0(-6) mm wide at base, species of various habitats and provenances" 19 16 "Rosette leaves subglabrous except for a fringe of hairs around the margins, on moist to wet habitats" "Craspedia lamicola" 16 "Surfaces of rosette leaves with robust septate hairs, on drier habitats" 17 17 "Surfaces of rosette leaves with moderate to dense cover of long robust septate hairs, upper part of scape densely woolly, endemic to alpine zone of Kosciuszko National Park" "Craspedia costiniana" 17 "Surfaces of rosette leaves with sparse to moderate cover of short robust sepatate hairs, upper part of scape sparsely to moderately woolly, widespread subalpine to alpine species" 18 18 "Scarious margin of general bracts of the glomerule wide in the basal part and very thin to absent in the apical part of the bracts, giving them a three-tipped appearance, flowers yellow or sometimes orange" "Craspedia jamesii" 18 "Scarious margin of general bracts of the glomerule more or less equal around the bracts, flowers orange or sometimes yellow" "Craspedia aurantia" 19 "Scapes 8-12(-27) cm tall, rosette leaves 30-80 mm long, with abrupt transition from rosette leaves to small cauline leaves, Tasmania" "Craspedia rosulata" 19 "Scapes 23-50(-70) cm tall, rosette leaves ~50-150(-220) mm long, with a smoother transition between rosette leaves and cauline leaves, mainland or Tasmania" 20 20 "Flowers usually orange, more rarely yellow, glomerules 10-20(-22) mm diam., subalpine areas of the mainland" "Craspedia crocata" 20 "Flowers always yellow, glomerules 12-30 mm diam., lowland areas of the mainland or Tasmania" 21 21 Tasmania "Craspedia glauca" 21 Mainland "Craspedia variabilis"