Coronidium scorpioides, commonly known as the button everlasting, is a perennial herbaceous shrub in the family Asteraceae found in Australia.
Botanist Paul Graham Wilson erected the new genus Coronidium for 17 species of daisy of the eastern states of Australia,[4] and it was given its new name of C. scorpioides in 2008.
[1] Wilson suspects there may be several species within C. scorpioides as currently defined, but deferred formally splitting them when revising the genus.
[4] The button everlasting is a herbaceous perennial plant that grows to 20–50 cm (8–19.5 in) high from a woody rootstock.
[4] It grows on heavier more fertile soils, such as brown clay or clay-loam, derived from basalt, or sandstone-shale, in open forest under such trees as narrow-leaved peppermint (Eucalyptus radiata), Sydney peppermint (E. piperita), brown barrel (E. fastigata), grey gum (E. punctata), manna gum (E. viminalis) or Blaxland's stringybark (E. blaxlandii), or in more open woodland under scribbly gum (Eucalyptus sclerophylla) and narrow-leaved apple (Angophora bakeri).