Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Brachyscome decipiens
Field daisy
Asteraceae
Woodland, heath, grassland, alpine herbfields, and swamps. Widespread south from the Goulburn district. Occasionally elsewhere.
Perennial herb to 0.30 m high, more or less hairless. Leaves basal, forming an ascending rosette, 2-19 cm long, 5-37 mm wide, hairless, margins entire or the upper half toothed, tips pointed. Flower heads with about 40-45 'petals' 5–11 mm long, white, or white above, mauve to purple below, or pale blue to mauve. Yellow centres 10-20 mm in diameter. Bracts appressed to the flower heads about 25. Flowering: Sept.–Mar.
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~decipiens (accessed 6 January, 2020)
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: 80-82
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