Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Brachyscome graminea
Common name
Grass Daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Grassy areas, along streams and swampy ground, and cliff faces. Widespread. No records from the Western Slopes.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.7 m high. Leaves sometimes somewhat fleshy. Scapes sticky-hairy to hairless. Leaves basal and alternating up the stems, 2–16 cm long, 1–10 mm wide, not or somewhat fleshy, hairless or with scattered glandular hairs, margins entire, tips pointed. Flower heads with 20-30 blue to violet, mauve, or white 'petals' 6-9 mm long, and yellow centres 3.5–17 mm in diameter. Bracts appressed to the flower heads 13-20. Flowering: most of 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~graminea (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: 152-154
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