Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Podolepis hieracioides

Flower heads. Photographer Jackie Miles

Flowering plant. Photographer Don Wood, South East Forests National Park

Rosette. Photographer Jackie Miles

Common name

Long Podolepis, Tall Copperwire Daisy

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, grassland, and disturbed sites. Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, ACT, tablelands, and ranges. Coastal mainly north from near Wollongong.

Notes

Perennial herb to 0.80 m high, arising annually from a thickened persistent rootstock. Flowering stems rough, woolly, or almost hairless, 1-few, branched, fine and wiry. Leaves basal and alternating up the stems, 5-20 cm long, 1-25 mm wide, rough to becoming hairless, margins flat to rolled down, bases stem clasping, tips pointed. Basal leaves often withered or dry by flowering time. Flower heads with 15-30 deeply fringed yellow 'petals', each 10-18 mm long, and yellow centres with many florets. Flower heads 15–20 mm in diameter below the 'petals', bell-shaped to hemispherical, in a tight or open cluster of 2–20 at the top of the stems. Flowering: spring–autumn.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

Rare Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Podolepis~hieracioides  (accessed 22 January, 2021)