Flowering plants. Photo: Richard Hartland, Pink Lakes, Vic

Flowering plant. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Flower head originating in at least 3 separate flower heads. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Pack Saddle, N of Broken Hill

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Pack Saddle, N of Broken Hill

Common Name

Poached Eggs; Poached Egg Daisy; Ham-and-eggs Daisy; White Billybutton

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Annual forb to 50cm tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, 2-7cm long, 1-5mm wide, linear to flat, hairy to hairless, with smooth edges.  Flowers white with yellow centres, with many ‘petals’. Flower heads broad hemispherical, borne singly at the ends of the stems.

Description and photo (as Myriocephalus stuartii) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 674

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