Gnephosis arachnoides, commonly known as erect yellow-heads or cobwebby-headed gnephosis, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Australia. It has greenish-yellow flower heads at the ends of stems. 
Description.
"Gnephosis arachnoides" is an annual herb with upright, slender, woolly stems becoming smooth with age and typically long. Leaves are arranged alternately, cottony, linear to lance-shaped, about wide and long. Flower heads more or less flattened and rounded, about in diameter, 6-11 bracts or 2 to 3 in a row and about long. Flowering may occur anytime of the year and the fruit is a brown achene about long. 
Taxonomy and naming.
"Gnephosis arachnoides" was first formally described in 1851 by Nicolai Stepanovitch Turczaninow and the description was published in "Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou". The specific epithet ("arachnoidea") means 'like a spider's web', referring to the hairs on the stems and leaves.
Distribution and habitat.
Erect yellow-heads grows in a variety of habitats including on sandy to clay soils, and rocky locations, sometimes in saline soils and is widespread in Western Australia, the south of the Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland and New South Wales.