Citation: Druce, Rep. Botl Soc. Exch. Club Br. Isl. 1916:630 (1917) var. stipitata.

Synonymy: Bellis stipitata Labill., Nov. Holl. Pl. Sp. 2:55 (1806); L. billardieri Cass., Dict. Sci. Nat. 25:111 (1822).

Common name: Common lagenophora, blue bottle-daisy.

Description:
Rhizome forming widely spreading stolons; roots fibrous; leaves obovate to spathulate, 2-6 cm long, 6-15 mm wide, deeply or shallowly dentate with 2-4 pairs of sinuate or acute teeth, hispid to hirsute.

Scapes terminal and axillary, robust, 5-18 cm long, hirsute, with 1-4 minute linear scale leaves; involucres 5-8 mm diam.; bracts lanceolate, acute, entire, glabrous; ray florets 3- or 4- seriate; ligules 2.5-4 mm long, white to blue or violet.

Achenes very shortly stipitate, oblanceolate, 3-4 mm long, with a beak to 0.8 mm long, glandular on the beak, margins and sometimes on the faces, brown.

Published illustration: Costin et al. (1979) Kosciusko Alpine Flora, fig. 294.

Distribution:  Occurs mainly in moist gullies and near water.   W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct. — Feb.

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

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