Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Brachyscome scapigera
Common name
Tufted Daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, heath, alpine herbfields and grasslands, and swamp margins. Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, ACT, tablelands, and the ranges.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.48 m high. Flower stalks hairless or hairy with few to many glandular hairs, usually with 1-2 (rarely more) small leaf-like bracts. Leaves basal, 2.5-24 cm long, 3-15 mm wide, hairless or rarely with some glandular hairs, margins entire, tips pointed. Plant with the remains of old leaves persisting at the base of the flower stalk(s). Flower heads single, 15-30 mm in diameter overall, with 45-90 white to mauve 'petals' 6-10.7 mm long, and yellow centres 6-11 mm in diameter. Bracts appressed to the flower heads 14-25. Flowering: Oct-May.
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~scapigera (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: 158
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