Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Brachyscome willisii
Common name
Narrow-wing daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Dry forest and grassy woodland. Western Slopes, Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, ACT, and the tablelands.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.25 m tall, rhizomatous, sparsely to conspicuously whitish sticky hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems or mostly in a near-basal rosette, 2-7 cm long, 8-20 mm wide, green and with sparse to dense non-glandular and glandular hairs, all leaves with shallow lobes, tips blunt or pointed. Flower heads with 18-35 white, pink, mauve, or purplish 'petals' 6.7-7.5 mm long, and yellow centres about 5-8 mm in diameter. Bracts appressed to the flower heads 15-25. Flowers Spring.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic.
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~willisii (accessed 6 January, 2020)
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