''Calocephalus aervoides'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

Asteraceae The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...

, native to

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

. Its common name is woolly beauty-heads.''Calocephalus aervoides''.
FloraBase. Western Australian Herbarium. This species is a herb growing up to 15 centimetres tall. It produces yellow flowers in September and October. It grows on plains with

loam Loam (in geology and soil science) is soil composed mostly of sand (particle size > ), silt (particle size > ), and a smaller amount of clay (particle size < ). By weight, its mineral composition is about 40–40–20% concentration of sand–sil ...

and sandy soils over

limestone Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms whe ...

substrates. The species was first formally described by the botanist

Ferdinand von Mueller Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (german: Müller; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Vict ...

as ''Pachysurus aervoides'' in '' Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae'' in 1863.''Calocephalus aervoides''.
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI).

References

Gnaphalieae Asterales of Australia Eudicots of Western Australia Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller {{Australia-asterid-stub