Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Podolepis jaceoides

Flower head and buds. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Showy copper-wire daisy, Showy podolepis

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, shrubland, grassland, and alpine herbfields. Widespread, except coastal only north frm Jervis Bay.

Plants in the ACT previously named Podolepis jaceoides have now been determinedto e Podolepis decipiens.

Notes

Perennial herb to 0.8 m high, arising annually from a thickened persistent rootstock. Stems woolly to almost hairless, unbranched. Leaves basal and alternating up the stems, 1-20 cm long, 2-20 mm wide, rough to becoming hairless, margins flat to rolled down, bases stem clasping. Basal leaves stalked, stem leaves stalkless. Flower heads with 20–50 yellow to orange 'petals' 10–30 mm long, deeply 3-5 toothed, and yellow centres with many florets. Flower heads mostly 20–40 mm in diameter below the 'petals', hemispherical to bell-shaped, Flower heads usually single, rarely 2-8 per stem. Flowering: winter-summer.

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