Flower and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Arid Lands Botanic Garden, Port Augusta, SA

Flower and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Arid Lands Botanic Garden, Port Augusta, SA

Common Name

Koonamore Daisy

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Perennial woody forb to 50cm tall.   Leaves alternating up the stems, 4-10cm long, 20-30mm wide, flat, hairy to bristly, deeply lobed, the lobes toothed.  Flower heads with 15-25 violet to purple, or white 'petals', and yellow centres. Flower heads oval, borne singly at the end of the stems.  Endangered NSW.  Protected NSW.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 640.

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

NSW Department of Environment & Heritage profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10278