Cymbonotus lawsonianus Gaudich.

Herbs to 30 cm high. Leaves ascending or prostrate, ovate, lanceolate or elliptic, 2–25 cm long, 2–9 cm wide, entire or shallowly or coarsely toothed; adaxial surface dark green, sparsely hairy with short coarse hairs or nearly glabrous; abaxial surface densely covered with white matted hairs. Capitula 10–20 mm diam.; peduncle 0–9 cm long; involucral bracts with dense cottony hairs on outer face, often obscuring glands; outer bracts spreading. Ray florets 10–20; ligule linear to oblanceolate, 4–11 mm long, 0.7–1.3 mm wide, yellow. Disc florets 10–30; corolla dilated distal to narrow base, 2–3.5 mm long, yellow, glandular; style branches c. 0.3 mm long. Achenes obovoid, 2.0–2.8 mm long, 1.1–1.5 mm wide, strongly curved, with corolla insertion eccentric, smooth or tuberculate, brown to black.

It grows in a range of situations on roadsides, in open forest and woodlands, and in disturbed areas often near water, sometimes also in lawns and gardens. Soils are variable.

Can be grown by seedlings.