Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Brachyscome stolonifera
Common name
Spreading Daisy, Kosciusko Daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Alpine herbfields and grassland, and wet sites. Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Tufted perennial herb to 0.15 m high, stoloniferous, creeping, hairless. Leaves in basal clusters, 1–5 cm long, 1–3 mm wide, margins entire, tips finely mucronate. Flower heads 15-30 mm in diameter overall, with about 15-30 white to yellow, white above and pale mauve below, or pink 'petals', about 6-10 mm long; and yellow centres about 7 mm in diameter. Bracts appressed to the flower heads about 16-17. Flowering: Jan.–Apr.
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~stolonifera (accessed 6 January, 2021)
Description mainly 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: 146-147
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