Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Brachyscome diversifolia
Common name
Large-headed daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, heath, and rocky places. Western Slopes, ACT, tablelands. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Annual or perennial herb to 0.5 m high. Scapessticky hairy, sticky, hairy, or hairless. Leaves basal and alternating up the stems, 2-14 cm long, about 5-20 mm wide, deeply dissected, tips blunt to pointed. Flower heads single, with about 21-46 white, occasionally mauve, 'petals' 10.8-13.3 mm long, and yellow centres 11-18 mm in diameter. Bracts appressed to the flower heads about 20-30. 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.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Brachyscome~diversifolia (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: 48-51
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