Flowering plant.  Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Scottsdale Bush Heritage Reserve near Bredbo, NSW

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, S of Cooma, NSW

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near Louth, NSW

Common Name

Lobe-seed Daisy

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Perennial forb with a woody base to 50cm tall.  Basal leaves withering early.  Stem leaves alternating up the stems, 2-8.5cm long, 2-10mm wide, flat to linear, sparsely to densely woolly, margins smooth or lobed, with 3 teeth or lobes at the tips, occasionally with blunt or pointed tips.  Flower heads with 32-35 white to mauve 'petals' with yellow centres. Flowers single at the ends of the stems.

Description and photo (page 650) and line drawing of seed (Fig. 64l page 648) (as Brachycome heterodonta) 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~dentata