Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Pappochroma bellidioides

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Barrington Tops National Park near Gloucester

Flowering plants. Photographer Richard Hartland, Mt Hotham, Vic

Plant showing rhizome. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Barrington Tops National Park near Gloucester

Common name

Daisy fleabane, Violet fleabane

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Alpine and sub-alpine grassy woodland, heath, grassland, and herbfields. ACT, the mountains to the west, and Kosciuszko National Park. Occasionally farther north.

Notes

Herb to 0.30 m high, rhizomatous, forming colonies. Flower stalks densely hairy at first. Leaves in a basal rosette, 1.5–8 cm long, 5–20 mm wide, with or without stalk-like bases, tips blunt, surfaces hairy, with a few stalkless glands, margins shallowly toothed or scalloped, rarely entire. Flower heads with 33-100 'petals', white to mauve or purplish, each 4–5 mm long, and yellow centres. Flower heads 15-25 mm in diameter behind the 'petals', top-shaped, single. Bracts appressed to the flower head narrow-triangular, somewhat sticky hairy, with mixed simple and glandular hairs. Flowers Dec – Feb.

Erigeron bellidioides in PlantNET.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

PlantNET description (as Erigeron bellidioides):  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Erigeron~bellidioides (accessed 20 April 2021)

Description above partly based on  Forbes, S.J. & Morris, D.I. (1996), A review of the Erigeron pappocromus Labill. complex. Muelleria 9: 183