Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, east of Rankin Springs, NSW

Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Joe McAuliffe, Murray Sunset National Park, Vic

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: S Donaldson, Mombooldool, NSW

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: G Sattler, Uluru National Park, NT

Common Name

Minnie Daisy

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Perennial forb or shrub, to 50cm tall or sprawling.  Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5-4cm long, about 1mm wide, linear, almost hairless to hairy, with pointed tips.  Flowers white or pink to purple with yellow centres, and many 'petals'. Flower heads bell-shaped, borne singly at the ends of the stems.

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 pages 646-647

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