ODIXIA ACHLAENA Asteraceae Golden Everlastingbush. Rare, fast growing daisy bush to 1.2 m. Creamy flowers in Spring. Well drained soil |
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BRACHYSCOME SPATHULATA ssp. glabra
Asteraceae A perennial herb which may easily be overlooked when not in
flower. Pale purple daisy flowers appear alone on a stem arising from
a rosette of leaves which are thick and dark green with a number of serrations.
The plants have numerous fleshy roots. Flowering |
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| LEUCOCHRYSUM ALBICANS SUBSP. ALBICANS VAR. TRICOLOR Asteraceae Grassland Paperdaisy Perennial everlasting daisy with several flower stems branching from a stout rootstock. Leaves mainly basal, narrow-linear to 12cm long, both surfaces softly felted, white. Flower stems to 30cm, white felty, with a few leafy bracts. Buds usually crimson. Flower heads to 3.5cm diameter, solitary, terminal, dominated by white papery spreading bracts, the outer bracts flushed with crimson, centre of yellow tubular florets. Flowering October-December, later in montane areas. Grassy places in Tasmanian Midlands and some grasslands in the western mountains. Tas, Vic, NSW, ACT. Information courtesy of the Launceston Field Naturalists Club. |
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| OLEARIA STELLULATA
Asteraceae (pictured) A variable woody shrub, closely related to O. phlogopappa, 1.5 m tall with slender upright branches. Young growth, branches and underside of leaves densely covered with felty stellate hairs. Leaves oblong to lanceolate 5-9 cm long. 7.5-20 mm wide, margins usually coarsely and evenly toothed, upper surface reticulate, rough to the touch, dark green, under surface fawn with dense covering of stellate hairs. Flower heads numerous on long stalks, 1 or 2 together terminating short lateral branches, florets white, occasionally blue. Fruit with pappus, achenese (one-seeded dry fruit, thin walled, formed from one carpel), hairy. Flowering September-February. Widespread, in margins of wet forests especially in the south. Tas. Vic. NSW. Qld. Information courtesy of Launceston Field Naturalists Club. 
OLEARIA PHLOGOPAPPA Asteraceae (blue form pictured) Daisy Bush A very widespread daisy bush; several distinct varieties are recognised. Leaves and young branches greyish with dense covering of stellate hairs. Upper surface of older leaves usually green (one variety retains the greyish-yellow hairs). Leaves narrow-elliptical, margins crenate or irregularly toothed or occasionally entire. Flower heads white, 2 cm across, numerous in branched inflorescences or solitary, on terminal and lateral shoots. Blue or pink forms exist. Fruit with pappus. Flowering spring. Common in many places from sea level to mountains, frequent on wet hillsides. Tas. Vic. NSW Information courtesy of Launceston Field Naturalists Club. |
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| VITTADINIA MUELLERI
Asteraceae Narrowleaf new-holland daisy (Named after Italian botanist Carlo Vittadinia; and German botanist, Ferdinand von Mueller) Erect multi-stemmed perennial daisy of grasslands. Leaves divided into 3 lobes, bright green, hairless, densely clustered. Numerous small purple daisy flowers with yellow cenres, borne at tips of branches. |
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