Common Name

Smooth Daisy, Inland Daisy

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Perennial forb or shrub to 40cm tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems or crowded at the base. Leaves 1-3.5cm long, to 1.5mm wide, flat, hairless, margins entire or with linear lobes, tips pointed.  Flowers with 13-20 white to mauve 'petals' and a yellow centre, in open groups at the ends of the stems.  Vulnerable Vic.

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

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