Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Celmisia costiniana
Common name
A snow daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Woodland, heath, herbfields, grasslands in colder spots, and along streams. ACT and Kosciuszko National Park. Tablelands between Adaminaby and the southern ACT.
Notes
Woody-based perennial herb to 0.30 m high, rhizomatous, forming more or less extensive patches. Persistent fibrous leaf bases. Scapes woolly. Leaves basal, forming a rosette, 4.5–18 cm long, 2–8 mm wide, uppper surface green to grey-green, with a thin silvery membranous coating splitting on the undersurface to reveal a short woolly grey to silver tomentum, margins curved or rolled down, bases with a broad sheath. Flower heads 30–60 mm in diameter overall, with many 'petals', white, tipped mauve on the underside, and yellow centres. Flowers December to February.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Celmisia~costiniana
(accessed 7 January, 2021)
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