Citation: Hook. f., London J. Bot. 6:114 (1847).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Field daisy.

Description:
Perennial herb to 20 cm high; rhizome absent; stem very short; leaves all radical, sessile, forming an ascending rosette, oblanceolate, subacute, attenuate at the base, entire to shallowly crenate or dentate distally, to 10 cm long, to 2 cm wide, glabrous.

Peduncles radical, unbranched, scapelike, 8-20 cm long, naked or with a single minute bract, glabrous; receptacle convex, 5-7 mm diam.; involucral bracts 20-25, oblong to narrowly obovate, obtuse, 3-6.5 mm long, glabrous, entire, often with purplish margins; ray florets 30-40; ligules oblanceolate, 5-8 mm long, pale-blue; anthers with terminal appendages.

Achenes obovate, flattened, somewhat curved, c. 3 mm long, brown; margins narrow, entire, thickened, glabrous; faces with scattered 2-fid hairs; pappus minute, with free subequal bristles.

Published illustration: Galbraith (1977) Field guide to the wildflowers of south-east Australia, t. 102.

Distribution:    N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: probably Sept. — Nov.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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