![]() ![]() Tiny, yellowish-green to gold flowers are produced in spring. Plants will die back in cold climates, producing new leaves again in early spring. In autumn they turn a bronze, brassy or purple color. The leaves fill in by late spring and look good throughout the rest of the growing season. ![]() ![]() If plants do die back over the winter they will not look their best early in the spring. This species is evergreen in milder climates (zones 9-10) its leaves will remain under snow cover in colder climates (although they turn rather reddish or dark colored rather than their normal green) but plants die back to the ground when exposed. The delicate-looking leaves grow up to 2” long and ½“ wide (but are often much smaller). The feathery or fern-like leaves are a dull grayish-green with gray, purple, and black tints. Hardy in zones 4-10, it only grows about half an inch to 2” high but spreads to form dense mats of foliage. In its native New Zealand this creeping herbaceous perennial is found in open, damp places in lowland to sub-alpine regions of North, South and Stewart Islands. This is one of about 30 species in this genus occurring in Australasia and southern South America. Brass buttons, Leptinella squalida (formerly Cotula squalida), is an unusual, very low-growing plant in the daisy family (Compositae). ![]()
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