Xerochrysum bracteatum (bracted strawflower)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Xerochrysum bracteatum, photographed by Guy Taseski — fig. a Guy Taseski, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-08 / obs. 141848014

Xerochrysum bracteatum, photographed by William G. Borges — fig. b William G. Borges, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 141085060

Xerochrysum bracteatum, photographed by Kym Nicolson — fig. d Kym Nicolson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75290328

Xerochrysum bracteatum, photographed by Peter de Lange — fig. e Peter de Lange, CC0 1.0 / obs. 13695431

Xerochrysum bracteatum, photographed by Kiri Bee — fig. f Kiri Bee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 93237646

Xerochrysum bracteatum, photographed by Nathan Odgers — fig. g Nathan Odgers, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 5301824

Xerochrysum bracteatum, photographed by James K. Douch — fig. h James K. Douch, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 172967657

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Flowering 174 in flower of 196 examined

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96%

Proportion of examined Xerochrysum bracteatum in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	20	20	100%	84% to 100%
Feb	14	15	93%	70% to 99%
Mar	8	9	89%	56% to 98%
Apr	12	15	80%	55% to 93%
May	8	10	80%	49% to 94%
Jun	3	3	too few examined
Jul	7	7	100%	65% to 100%
Aug	6	6	100%	61% to 100%
Sep	16	21	76%	55% to 89%
Oct	34	41	83%	69% to 91%
Nov	24	26	92%	76% to 98%
Dec	22	23	96%	79% to 99%

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Xerochrysum bracteatum observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 174 of 196 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 14 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Bracteantha bracteata (Vent.) Anderb. & Haegi
Gnaphalium banksii (A.Cunn. ex DC.) Sch.Bip.
Gnaphalium bicolor (Lindl.) Sch.Bip.
Gnaphalium chrysanthum (Pers.) Sch.Bip.
Gnaphalium glabratum (DC.) Sch.Bip.
Gnaphalium macranthum Sch.Bip.
Gnaphalium macrocephalum (A.Cunn. ex DC.) Sch.Bip.
Gnaphalium papillosum Poir.
Helichrysum bracteatum (Vent.) Haw.
Helichrysum bracteatum (Vent.) Andrews
Helichrysum chrysanthum Pers.
Helichrysum lucidum Henckel
Helichrysum lucidum var. lucidum
Xeranthemum bracteatum Vent.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.