Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Parantennaria uniceps
Common name
Parantennaria, Snowpatch Daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Alpine herbfields, wet areas in alpine grassland, margins of streams and bogs, cold wet gullies. Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, and ACT.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.3 m high, low and flat, the prostrate stems rooting at the nodes, often forming cushion-like mats. Leaves alternating along the stems, crowded, 0.5–1.5 cm long, 0.5–2 mm wide, rigid, hairless, tips pointed, mucronate, bases membranous and often purplish, stem-clasping. Male and female flowers on diferent plants. Flower heads 4–6 mm in diameter, bell-shaped to hemispherical, female flower heads narrower than the male, oval-cylindrical at first. Bracts appressed to the flower heads 3–5 mm long, dry and membranous, brown or purplish. Flower heads single. Flowering: summer.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Parantennaria~uniceps (accessed 29 January, 2021)
This identification key and fact sheets are available as a free mobile application:
