Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Celmisia longifolia

Common name

A snow daisy

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Bogs and seepages at elevations of more than 900 m altitude. Blue Mountains 

Notes

Perennial herb to more than 0.2 m high. Scapes woolly, with leaflike bracts to 4 cm long. Leaves basal, with a broad sheathing base, to 20 cm long, upper surface silvery hairy or becoming hairless with age, lower surface with a dense white tomentum, base sheathing, margins rolled down, bases with a broad sheath. Flower heads below the 'petals' broadly top-shaped or hemispherical, 20-30 mm in diameter. Flower heads with numerous white or pink 'petals' 10-20 mm long, and yellow centres. Flowering: summer.

The description above is based on that in Pellow, BJ, Henwood, MJ, and Carolin, R.C. (2006), Flora of the Sydney Area Fifth Edition, Sydney, Sydney University Press, page 446

This species is now separated into two species - Celmisia longifolia in the strict sense as described above, and Celmisia sp. Pulchella (M.Gray & C.Totterdell 7079)

The PlantNET description does not differentiate the two species.

VICFLORA description:  https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/650ecad1-5d49-46a8-a50f-a1414c67941b  (accessed 4 April 2021)