Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Brachyscome gracilis subsp. gracilis

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Alexander Schmidt-Lebuhn, Koorawatha Nature Reserve south of Cowra

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Alexander Schmidt-Lebuhn, Illunie Nature Reserve south of Cowra

Line drawings. b. flowering branch; seed (front and side view). Gloria Thomlinson, Daisy Study Group, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board, Melbourne, Vic

Common name

Dookie Daisy

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Woodland. Rocky areas and moist sites. Western Slopes.

Notes

Annual herb to 0.35 m high or sprawling, hairy to slightly hairy and somewhat sticky. Leaves basal and alternating up the stems, basal leaves usually not persisting. Leaves 0.4–9 cm long, 0.5–2.5 mm wide, deeply lobed to dissected, stem-clasping, tips blunt. Flower heads with 8-12 white 'petals' about 3.5–5 mm long, and yellow centres to 7 mm in diameter. 8–14 bracts appressed to the flower heads. Flower heads usually single. Flowering: September–November.

Definite identification of most species of Brachyscome depends on microscopic examination of the seeds.

Vulnerable Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Brachyscome~gracilis   (accessed 6 January, 2021)