Leptinella squalida Hook.fil. is a plant in the Asteraceae family, order Asterales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Leptinella squalida Hook.fil.

Leptinella squalida Hook.fil.

Leptinella squalida, brass buttons, is a New Zealand daisy plant grown ornamentally for ground cover.

Family
Genus
Leptinella
Order
Asterales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Leptinella squalida Hook.fil.

Leptinella squalida is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family that is native to New Zealand. It gets the common name "brass buttons" from its yellow, button-shaped flowers. It grows to around 5 centimeters, or 2 inches, tall, and spreads indefinitely through rhizomes. One of its cultivars, L. squalida 'Platt's Black', has near-black foliage and is cultivated as an ornamental plant, particularly for use in rock gardens and flowering lawns.

Photo: (c) Shirley Kerr, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Shirley Kerr · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Asterales Asteraceae Leptinella

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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