title: Asteridea pulverulenta
text: # Asteridea pulverulenta
  
  Asteridea pulverulenta (common name - common bristle daisy) is a species of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family, which is endemic to Western Australia, in the south-west. It was first described in 1839 by John Lindley.
  
  ## Description
  
  It is an annual herb, growing on sandy soils to heights of from 5 cm to 70 cm. Its white flowers may seen from October to January on coastal dunes and sandplains.
  
  Lindley describes the plant as having a dusty indumentum ("undique pilis mollibus ramentaceis pulverulenta"), and uses the adjective, pulverulenta ("powdered, dusty"), as the epithet to describe this characteristic of the plant.
  
  