Yellow Buttons Chrysocephalum apiculatum flowers

Yellow Buttons (Common Everlasting)

Chrysocephalum apiculatum

Fast, tough, cost-effective groundcover

Yellow Buttons, Chrysocephalum apiculatum (commonly known as the Common Everlasting or Yellow Buttons) is a tough, adaptable Australian native groundcover with bright golden flowers and soft green to grey-green foliage. It’s widely used in landscaping for its resilience, long flowering period, and natural, slightly wild appearance—making it perfect for native, coastal, and low-maintenance gardens.

🌿 Key Features

  • Height & Spread: ~20–50cm high × 50cm–1m+ wide
  • Foliage: Soft green to grey-green, slightly woolly
  • Flowers: Bright yellow, papery “button” flowers
  • Flowering Period: Spring through summer (often sporadic year-round)
  • Growth Habit: Spreading, slightly open and natural

🌱 Why It’s Popular

  • Extremely hardy: Handles heat, drought, and poor soils
  • Fast spreading: Great for quick ground coverage
  • Naturalistic look: Ideal for native and informal gardens
  • Pollinator friendly: Attracts bees and beneficial insects
  • Low input plant: Thrives with minimal care

🌞 Ideal Growing Conditions (Melbourne & similar climates)

  • Sun: Full sun to light shade (best flowering in full sun)
  • Soil: Well-drained soils preferred, but very adaptable
  • Water: Low once established
  • Frost: Tolerates light to moderate frost

🌿 Landscape Uses

  • Native garden groundcover
  • Mass planting for low-maintenance areas
  • Roadside, commercial, and large-scale landscapes
  • Erosion control on slopes
  • Filling gaps between shrubs and trees

✂️ Maintenance Tips

  • Trim lightly after flowering to keep compact
  • Can become a bit open/leggy over time—refresh pruning helps
  • Avoid overly rich soils (can reduce compactness)
  • Replace older plants if they become woody

⚖️ Compared to ‘Silver Sunburst’

  • More natural/wild form vs. the tighter, more ornamental Silver Sunburst
  • Greener foliage vs. distinct silver tones
  • Slightly more vigorous but less refined visually

💡 Tough and Drought Tolerant Groundcover

Yellow Buttons, Chrysocephalum apiculatum is a hardy Australian native groundcover known for its bright yellow everlasting flowers and tough, drought-tolerant nature. Ideal for Melbourne gardens, native landscapes, and large-scale planting, it provides long-lasting colour with minimal maintenance in full sun and well-drained soil.

 

$6.25 – $11.25 inc. GST

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Melbourne Metro deliveries cost $49.50.
Expect your delivery to arrive between 1 and 5 business days.

The Mornington Peninsula ** Mt Eliza to Portsea ** and Geelong deliveries cost $69.50.
Expect your delivery to arrive between 1 and 5 business days.

Outer Melbourne deliveries cost $143.00.
Expect your delivery to arrive between 1 and 7 business days.

Regional Victoria deliveries cost between $143.00 – $264.00.
Expect your delivery to arrive between 3 and 7 business days.

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