Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Lagenophora stipitata

Flowering plant. Photographer Richard Hartland, Lake Mountain, Vic

Flowering plants. Photographer Don Wood, Ben Boyd National Park south of Eden

Flowering plants. Photographer Don Wood, Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve, ACT

Common name

Blue bottle daisy, Common lagenophora

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, grassland and herbfields, in the shelter of granite outcrops, near-coastal dunes, stream banks, and moist sites. Widespread.

Notes

Perennial herb with slender rhizomes, roots fibrous. Flower stalk to 0.2 m high, usually hairy. Leaves mostly basal, some alternating up the stem, 1–15 cm long, 5–35 mm wide, more or less hairy, margins toothed, scalloped, or almost lobed, tips blunt to somewhat pointed. Stem leaves grading into narrow bracts with entire margins and about 0.5-1 cm long or more. Flower heads with many white, pale pink, bluish or mauve to purple, 'petals' each 2–5 mm long, and yellow centres. Flower heads below the 'petals' 4–8 mm in diameter. Flower heads single. Flowering: spring–summer.

Was Lagenifera stipitata.

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=Lagenophora~stipitata (accessed 22 January, 2021)