Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Celmisia pugioniformis
Common name
A snow daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Woodland, heath, grasslands, herbfields, and Sphagnum bogs. Kosciuszko National Park and the western edge of the ACT.
Notes
Woody-based perennial herb to 0.4 m high, rhizomatous, with persistent fibrous leaf bases. Scapes woolly. Leaves basal, forming a rosette, 3–25 cm long, 0.5–8 mm wide, upper surface olive to grey green, lower surface with a thick shiny membranous coating, rupturing to reveal a long white-woolly tomentum which fills the cavity on the leaf underside, more or less obscuring the raised midrib, margins curved to rolled down, bases with a broad sheath. Flower heads 30–60 mm in diameter overall, with many 'petals', white, white tipped with mauve underneath, or wholly mauve, and yellow centres. Flowers summer.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Celmisia~pugioniformis
(accessed 7 January, 2021)
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