Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Brachyscome multifida
Common name
Cut-leaved daisy, Rocky daisy, Hawkesbury daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Dry forest, grassy areas, and roadsides. Coast, ranges, and tablelands, north from the Blue Mountains. Widely cultivated. Occasional garden escapes elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub or perennial or annual herb to 0.45 m tall, often sprawling, almost hairless. Leaves basal and alternating up the stems, 1.5-7 cm long, entire and linear, or dissected with narrow lobes to 3.5 cm long, tips blunt or pointed. Flower heads single, with about about 21-34 mauve, pink, or white ‘petals’ 5-12 mm long, and yellow centres 3.5-8 mm in diameter. Bracts appressed to the flower heads about 14-24. Flowering: most of the year.
Varieties as described in PlantNET are not accepted by the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (accessed 30 April 2021).
Definite identification of most species of Brachyscome depends on microscopic examination of the seeds.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Brachyscome~multifida (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: 133-136
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