Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Brachyscome nivalis
Common name
Snow daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Woodland, alpine and subalpine grassland and herbfields, damp sites, and crevices among rocks. Kosciuszko National Park and occasionally east to south of Nimmitabel. The only records in the ACT are from 1961.
Notes
Clumping perennial herb to 0.30 m high, stoloniferous. Scapes hairless or with tiny glands. Leaves mainly basal, 3-15 cm long, 8–20 mm wide, margins deeply dissected with narrow lobes, sometimes entire, bases stem-clasping. Flower heads with 30-40 'petals' 10-17.5 mm long, and yellow centres 15-20 mm in diameter. 'Petals' white, sometimes pinkish in bud. Bracts appressed to the flower heads 15-40. Flowering: Nov.-May.
Definite identification of most species of Brachyscome depends on microscopic examination of the seeds.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Brachyscome~nivalis (accessed 6 January, 2021)
Description partly based on: Short, P.S. (2014), A taxonomic review of Brachyscome Cass. s.lat. (Asteraceae: Astereae), including description of a new genus, Roebuckia, new species and new infraspecific taxa. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 28: 142, 143-145
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