Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Brachyscome rigidula
Common name
Hairy Cut-leaf Daisy, Cut-leaf Daisy, Leafy Daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, shrubland, grassland, and alpine herbfields. Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, ACT, tablelands, and the ranges.
Notes
Perennial herb or shrub to 0.6 m high, sometimes sprawling or prostrate, sticky-hairy. Leaf segments often with sharp-pointed tips, crowded, 0.5-2.5 cm long, deeply dissected, segments about 1 mm wide. Flower heads single, with 22-40 white, pinkish, or mauve to purple 'petals' 7-13 mm long, and yellow centres 5–13 mm in diameter. Bracts appressed to the flower heads about 11-20. Flowering: August-May.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
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~rigidula (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: 72-74
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