Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Brachyscome obovata
Common name
Baw Baw daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Subalpine heath, margins of sphagnum bogs, seepage areas, and along streams. Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, ACT, and the tablelands and ranges east and south of the ACT.
Notes
Tufted perennial herb to about 0.45 m high, rhizomatous. Scapes hairless or with very sparse glandular hairs, with 2-9 leaf-like bracts less than 1 cm long. Leaves mostly in a basal cluster, 3.5–25 cm long, 0.5–6 mm wide, hairless, margins entire, tips pointed. Upper leaves much smaller. Remains of leaves not persisting at the base of the plant. Flower heads single, with 25-30 white, bluish, mauve, or tinged purple 'petals' 6–13 mm long, and yellow centres 5–10 mm in diameter. Bracts appressed to the flower heads 16-29. Flowering: Oct.-Apr.
Rare Vic.
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~obovata (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: 154-155
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