Common Name

Slender Daisy, Finger-leaved Daisy

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Annual forb to 18cm tall.  Basal leaves soon withering, stem leaves alternating up the stems. Stem leaves more or less stem-clasping.  Leaves 0.7-4cm long, 2-8mm wide, flat, hairless to sticky hairy, margins entire or lobed or dissected.  Flowers with 17-20 white 'petals' and yellow centres. Flowers single at the ends of the stems. Rare Vic.

Description (as Brachycome exilis) (page 652) and line drawing of seed (page 648 Fig. 64 s) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Brachyscome~exilis

Photo of flowers and leaves. Photographer Richard Hartland, Victoria