Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Brachyscome aculeata
Common name
Hill daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Forest and woodland, occasionally subalpine herbfields. Widespread.
Notes
Perennial stoloniferous herb to 0.7 m high. Scapes sticky at least below the flower heads. Basal rosette leaves soon withering. Stem leaves alternating up the stems, 2-15 cm long, 2-20 mm wide, hairless or with glandular hairs; margins entire or lobed to toothed, tips blunt. Flower heads single, with about 20-35 'petals' 8-20 mm long, white, sometimes white above and bluish below, or mauve to pink. Yellow centres 8-20 mm in diameter. Bracts appressed to the flower heads about 12-20. Flowering: Sept.–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~aculeata (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: 34-37, Figs 1A, 9B
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