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Grass Daisy

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Scientific Name:Brachyscome graminae
Flowering plants of Grass Daisy in tussocky marshland
Flowering plants of Grass Daisy in tussocky marshland
Photo: A J Brown

Status:
Native to southern Australia.

Plant Description:
Erect to ascending, perennial daisy to 70 cm high, with stoloniferous (creeping stems) habit. Younger leaves and stems with a few sparse hairs. Leaves crowded at the base of the stem, linear to oblanceolate (backward spear shape), from 3-14 cm long and 2-7 mm wide.

Flower-heads 8–17 mm diameter with a thin flower stalk, reaching beyond the leaves. Bracts around the flower-heads, narrow-elliptic and blunt-ended, green and finely toothed. ‘Petals’ white, pink, violet or blue and about 9 mm long. Fruit an obovate, flattened, smooth, brown, achene about 2 mm long. Lacks as obvious pappus (umbrella of hairs that aids seed dispersal).

Habitat:
Throughout Victoria except for the Mallee and the Alps. Generally growing in marshy sites, including the edges of salt-marshes.

RegionSalinity ClassWaterlogging Class
Central and Northern, Wimmera, Western, GippslandS0, S1, S2W2, W3

Comments:
Brachyscome has been spelt as Brachycome in older treatments of the genus.

Grass Daisy Photos

Young plants of Grass Daisy
young plants of Grass Daisy
Photo: A J Brown
Grass Daisy plants
Grass Daisy plants
Photo: A J Brown

Grass Daisy flower-bud
Grass Daisy flower-bud
Photo: A J Brown

Grass Daisy flower-head
Grass Daisy flower-head
Photo: A J Brown

Leaf of Grass Daisy
Leaf of Grass Daisy
Photo: A J Brown
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