Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Brachyscome dentata
Common name
Lobe-seed Daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
A variety of habitats including dry forest, woodland, and grassland, often on flood plains. Western Slopes, Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, ACT, tablelands, and the ranges.
Notes
Perennial herb, occasionally annual, to 0.5 m tall. Scapessparsely to densely woolly, occasionally also sticky-hairy. Basal leaves sometimes withering early. Stem leaves alternating up the stems. Leaves 2-10.5 cm long, 1-28 mm wide, sparsely to densely woolly, margins entire or lobed, tips usually with 3 teeth or lobes, occasionally blunt or pointed. Flower heads with 20-71 white to mauve (often yellow in bud) 'petals' each 6.4-11.8 mm long, and yellow centres 5.4-10 mm in diameter. Bracts appressed to the flower heads 13-30. Flowers most of the year.
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.
PlantNETdescription: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Brachyscome~dentata (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: 87-88, 90
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