Alice Springs Desert Park
Alice Springs Desert ParkFauna Flora Nature Theatre Nocturnal House
Seen growing scattered throughout the Alice Springs Desert Park, the Golden Everlasting (Xerochrysum bracteatum), formerly known as Helichrysum bracteatum, are a perennial daisy that are found growing across a variety of habitats stretching from sub-alpine areas, rainforest margins and arid desert regions.
An erect perennial plant with their distinctive papery bracts (resembling petals) are hairy and rough to the touch. They are a food source for a variety of insects including butterflies, moths, hoverflies, beetles, grasshoppers and native bees. Insects are often seen feeding on the flower heads.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Clade: Tracheophytes
- Clade: Angiosperms
- Clade: Eudicots
- Clade: Asterids
- Order: Asterales
- Family: Asteraceae
- Genus: Xerochrysum
- Species: X. bracteatum
- Binomial name: Xerochrysum bracteatum
- Synonyms:
- Bracteantha bracteata
- Helichrysum bracteatum
- Helichrysum lucidum
- Helichrysum chrysanthum
ASDP FloraFlora Index Batswing Coral Tree Blue Mallee Bush Banana Buttercup Pigweed Dead Finish Desert Grevillea Desert Oak Desert Raisin Field Lily Georges Indigo Golden Everlasting Honey Grevillea Kangaroo Grass Lamarchea sulcata Myoporum acuminatum (Boobialla) Native Apricot Native Bluebell Native Cotton Bush Native Tomato Nicotiana megalosiphon subsp sessilifolia Olearia ferresii Parrot Pea Pink Everlasting Poached Egg Daisy Potato Vine Quandong Rattlepod Grevillea Red-bud Mallee Red Mulga Resurrection Fern Rough Halgania Sandover Lily Silkyheads Small Yellow Button (Chrysocephalum apiculatum) Spearwood Bush Sturt’s Desert Pea Waddy-wood Walukara Weeping Spinifex White Spider Flower Wild Passionfruit Witchetty Bush Wildflower Display
Alice Springs Desert ParkFauna Flora Nature Theatre Nocturnal House