Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Brachyscome spathulata
Common name
Coarse daisy, Spoon-leaved daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, heath, very low shrubland in alpine feldmark, and grassy areas and herbfields. Widespread. No records from the Sydney area.
Notes
Perennial stoloniferous herb to 0.6 m high. Scapes sticky hairy to more or less hairless. Most leaves in a basal rosette. Basal leaves spoon-shaped, 1.7-12 cm long, 6-30 mm wide, more or less hairless, margins mostly with shallow teeth or lobes. Stem leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5–5 cm long, 1–30 mm wide, woolly, margins finely toothed, becoming smaller in size up the stem. Flower heads single, with 40-60 pale blue to mauve or rarely white 'petals' 5–16 mm long, and yellow centres 10–20 mm in diameter. Bracts appressed to the flower heads about 20-30. Flowering: Sept.–June. 'Seeds' flat.
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~spathulata (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: 39-41
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