| Scientific Name: | Leptinella squalida |
| Common Name: | brass buttons |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | Australia / New Zealand |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Ground cover, Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Alpine, Container planting, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Rock garden, Small garden/space |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Bipinnate, Elliptic, Obovate, Lacerate, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), Yellow, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Achene, Brown |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Basal ground cover; leaves <10cm long, fern-like, hairy leaves/stems, bronze fall colour. | |