Asteraceae Wildflowers

Azure Daisy Bush

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:42:00 GMT

Aromatic shrub or perennial forb to 1.5m tall. Leaves alternating up the stem, often with basal lobes, more or less stem clasping, 1.5-12cm long, 6-40mm wide, flat, hairy to rough, often sticky, the edges toothed or entire. Flowers with 30-75 blue or mauve to purplish, rarely white, ‘petals’, and yellow to orange centres. Flower heads broadly heimspherical, borne singly or in open groups of 2-8 at the ends of the branchlets.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Olearia Species: rudis Main Flower Colour: Purple

Chrysocephalum puteale

John Baas — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:42:00 GMT

Erect, compact perennial, herb or shrub, 0.15-0.75 m high. Fl. yellow, Mar to Nov. Sandy or stony soils. Sand ridges, sandplains, rocky hills.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Chrysocephalum Species: puteale Main Flower Colour: Yellow

Common Cassinia or Dogwood

Member - John and Val — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 06:05:00 GMT

This bushy understorey shrub is common in dry forests, particularly in disturbed areas. The narrow leaves are dark green on top and pale below and have a slightly scaly texture, and may cause skin irritation. The small whitish flower heads are crowded into a very slightly convex flower head at the end of branches.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Cassinia Species: aculeata Main Flower Colour: White

Common Everlasting

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:42:00 GMT

Chrysocephalum apiculatum is a very variable species which is not surprising given its very extensive distribution. It is usually a small, spreading perennial or shrub up to about 0.3 metres high by 0.5 to 1.5 metres in width. Some forms spread by suckering. The linear or lance-shaped leaves are often silvery or greyish in appearance due to the presence of dense hairs and may be between 10 and 60 mm in length by about 5 - 15 mm wide. The bright yellow flower heads appear in clusters at the ends of the stems, mainly during summer and autumn but it is not unusual to see flowers at other times of the year. Individual flower heads are up to 15 mm in diameter. Common everlasting has been in cultivation for many years and numerous named forms are available from specialist nurseries and/or enthusiasts. Because of the wide range of the species it is difficult to generalise about growing conditions or hardiness under garden conditions. However, good drainage and a sunny position seem to be mandatory. Most forms are suitable for growing in containers. Propagation from seed can be carried out without any pretreatment but cuttings usually give more reliable results. Named forms should only be propagated from cuttings as seed is unlikely to produce plants true to type.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Chrysocephalum Species: apiculatum Main Flower Colour: Yellow

Daisybush

Member - John and Val — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 06:13:00 GMT

Variable shrub up to 1.5m. Leaves small and rounded.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Olearia Species: ramulosa Main Flower Colour: White

Daisybush

Member - John and Val — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:43:00 GMT

A dense woody shrub growing to about 1m high. small rectangular shaped leaves covered with hairs giving a greyish appearance. Flowerheads about 2cm across.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Olearia Species: unknown Main Flower Colour: White

Drummond's Everlasting Daisy, Pompom daisy

Member - John and Val — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 01:46:00 GMT

Springtime splendour, when vast areas of red sand come alight with these amazing everlastings. Slender upright herb, leaves elongated. Flowers in heads 2 to 3cm across that can be white, yellow or pink. Large papery bracts make up the conspicuous part of the infloresence (flower head).
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Cephalipterum Species: drummondii Main Flower Colour: Yellow

Erect yellow heads

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:44:00 GMT

Annual herb, stems erect, 5–30 cm long, nearly glabrous to cottony. Leaves lanceolate to linear, 4–34 mm long, c. 0.5–4 mm wide, midrib ± prominent on lower surface, glabrous to cottony, ± glandular. Compound heads ± depressed-ovoid, c. 8 mm diam.; general involucre a third as long as head, inconspicuous at maturity, of numerous leaf-like cottony bracts, innermost with apex yellow hyaline; partial heads 50–300, each with 2 florets, bracts 6–11, 2- or 3-seriate, ± narrow oblong, flat to concave c. 2 mm long, hyaline with opaque midrib, glabrous or sparsely hairy near apex of midrib, ± glandular hairy, lamina ± constricted in upper region, upper part yellow. Achenes c. 1 mm long, brown, papillose; pappus cup-like.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Gnephosis Species: arachnoidea Main Flower Colour: Yellow

Erodiophyllum elderi - Hard Heads

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 02:11:00 GMT

Perennial woody forb to 50cm tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4-10cm long, 20-30mm wide, flat, hairy to bristly, deeply lobed, the lobes toothed. Flower heads with 15-25 violet to purple, or white 'petals', and yellow centres. Flower heads oval, borne singly at the end of the stems. Endangered NSW. Protected NSW.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Erodiophyllum Species: elderi Main Flower Colour: Purple

Flannel Cudweed

John Baas — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:44:00 GMT

Prostrate to decumbent annual, herb, 0.01-0.12 m high. Fl. yellow, Jul to Oct. Red sand or loam, granitic soils. Variety of habitats.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Actinobole Species: uliginosum Main Flower Colour: Yellow

Fleshy Groundsel or Annual Yellowtop

John Baas — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:44:00 GMT

Erect, fleshy annual, herb, to 1 m high. Fl. yellow, May to Oct. Red or brown or white-grey clay, red sands or loams, laterite, sandstone. Flats, dunes, depressions, saline sites, clay pans, along breakaways, at the base of rocky outcrops.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Senecio Species: gregorii Main Flower Colour: Yellow

Fringed Daisy Bush - Kangaroo Island Endemic

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:45:00 GMT

Dwarf undershrub to 25cm high, with rough hairy stems and tightly compacted, tiny leaves.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Olearia Species: ciliata Main Flower Colour: Purple

Golden Everlasting

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 22:40:00 GMT

Xerochrysum bracteatum, the "Golden Everlasting", is one of the best known of the "paper daisies". It is a very widespread species occurring in both annual and perennial forms. It varies in habit from prostrate to a shrubby plant of about 1m in height. The leaves are usually large (up to 100mm long) and green to grey-green in colour. The individual flowers are very small but are formed into a large cluster surrounded by large papery bracts. The overall appearance is that of a large, single "flower" with the bracts as the "petals". However, well over a hundred true flowers occur inside the ring of bracts. Xerochrysum bracteatum - white A white-flowered form of Xerochrysum bracteatum Photo: Australian Daisy Study Group The golden everlasting has been cultivated for many years and a number of forms have been selected for cultivation. These include several which have resulted from both chance and deliberate hybridisation.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Xerochrysum Species: bracteatum Main Flower Colour: Yellow

Golden Everlasting, Strawflower

Member - John and Val — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 04:50:00 GMT

Low growing plant with slightly hairy, sticky leaves.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Xerochrysum Species: bracteatum Main Flower Colour: Yellow

Goldfields Daisy

John Baas — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:46:00 GMT

Goldfields Daisy commonly grows into compact round shrubs about half a metre in height. The small leaves are flat, stiff and slightly viscid (sticky). The flowerheads are over 2 cm diameter, usually a vivid white with a yellow centre, although blue\purple colours are also recorded. Flowers are produced anytime from August to January.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Olearia Species: muelleri Main Flower Colour: White

Large-leaf Daisy-bush

Member - John and Val — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 07:54:00 GMT

A shrub to 2 m high that grows in moist sub-alpine gullies. Leaves alternate or opposite, 20–120 mm long, 6–28 mm wide; margins entire, flat; apex acute or rounded; surfaces discolorous, upper surface glabrous and dark green, lower surface beige-felted; petiole to 30 mm long. Flower heads terminal, in simple corymbs, pedunculate, flowerheads 23–32 mm diam. Ray florets 5–9, white. Disc florets 9–14, yellow.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Olearia Species: megalophylla Main Flower Colour: White

Much-branched Daisybush

Member - John and Val — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:46:00 GMT

The Much-branched Daisybush is a low shrub although it can grow to over 1 metre under favourable conditions. The very small leaves are 2 mm in length and are covered in fine woolly hairs that help to reduce moisture loss. Flower colour is variabale.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Olearia Species: ramosissima Main Flower Colour: White

Orange Immortelle

John Baas — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:46:00 GMT

Erect or ascending annual, herb, 0.1-0.6 m high. Fl. red-orange-yellow-white-pink, Jul to Dec or Jan. Sand, clay, loam, gravel, litter, laterite, sandstone, granite. Sand dunes & plains, rocky places, saline depressions.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Waitzia Species: acuminata Main Flower Colour: Yellow

Pink Clusters Everlasting

Keith G — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 01:19:00 GMT

Erect annual, herb, 0.07-0.4(-0.7) m high. Fl. pink & yellow Sandy, loam & clay, often stony soils.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Schoenia Species: cassiniana Main Flower Colour: Pink

Pink Clusters Everlasting, Schoenia

Member - John and Val — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:47:00 GMT

Erect annual herb to about 50cm high. Long straplike leaves. Flowerheads have bright pink papery bracts and are 2 - 3cm across. Endemic to WA, make up a large part of the spectacular wildflower display that occurs in spring.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Schoenia Species: cassiniana Main Flower Colour: Pink

Pink Daisy - Streptoglossa sp.

Member - John and Val — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 11:20:00 GMT

Small prostrate plant. Leaves broad, oval with rough hairs. Flower heads 2cm across. Growing in red loam beside watercourse.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Streptoglossa Main Flower Colour: Pink

Pink Everlasting

John Baas — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:47:00 GMT

Erect annual, herb, 0.07-0.4(-0.7) m high. Flowers pink and yellow, Jun to Nov. Sandy, loam & clay, often stony soils.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Schoenia Species: cassiniana Main Flower Colour: Pink

Pink Everlasting

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:48:00 GMT

Erect annual, herb, 0.07-0.4(-0.7) m high. Fl. pink & yellow, Jun to Nov. Sandy, loam & clay, often stony soils.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Schoenia Species: cassiniana Main Flower Colour: Pink

Poached Egg Daisy

Member - John and Val — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:48:00 GMT

After rain desert areas burst into life, with these everlasting daisies leading the charge. Previously named Myriocephalus stuartii. Grows on sand. Annual to about 50cm, rapidly covering large areas after rain. Greyish leaves and stems, slightly hairy, sometimes sticky. Leaves elongated. Flower heads up to 5cm diameter held on upright stems, yellow centre comprised of small individual flowers surrounded by numerous white papery bracts.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Polycalymma Species: stuartii Main Flower Colour: White

Poached Egg Daisy,

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:49:00 GMT

The Poached egg daisy is one of the most abundant and conspicuous plants on sand plains and dunefields during good seasons. It is a stout, erect herb of 10-50 cm in height. It flowers in spring and in years of good autumn rainfall preceding a dry summer, the plant is sometimes so abundant that patches appear as a sea of yellow and white.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Polycalymma Species: stuartii Main Flower Colour: Yellow

Rhodanthe citrina

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:49:00 GMT

Erect annual, herb, 0.05-0.3(-0.5) m high.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Rhodanthe Species: citrina Main Flower Colour: Yellow

Sand Sunray, Teitkens Daisy

Alan McCall — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 04:23:00 GMT

Annual forb to 50cm tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, the upper leaves stem clasping. Flowersheads yellow, with no ligulate florets. Flower heads cylindrical to narrow bell-shaped, in dense clusters of 6-12 flowers at the ends of the stems. Widely distributed across inland Australia.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Rhodanthe Species: tietkensii Main Flower Colour: Yellow

Satin Everlasting

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:49:00 GMT

Perennial herb 15–50 cm high with a woody rootstock, branched or unbranched, erect to ascending, ± woolly and with scattered inconspicuous glandular hairs. Leaves narrow-oblanceolate or linear, mostly 2–5 cm long, 1–5 mm wide, lamina discolorous, upper surface glabrescent or sparsely woolly, lower surface densely woolly, both surface with scattered minute glandular hairs. Heads terminal, usually solitary or sometimes 2 or 3 in an open leafy corymb, heads hemispherical, 1.5–2.2 cm long, 2.5–3.5 cm diam.; involucral bracts spreading or reflexed at maturity, intermediate ones longest; outermost bracts papery, white; intermediate bracts 10–14 mm long, mostly papery, white (sometimes tinged pink in bud), claws woolly. Florets numerous, all bisexual. Achenes oblong, 4-angled with 4 ribs, glabrous; pappus of many white, barbellate bristles, scarcely fused at base.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Helichrysum Species: leucopsideum Main Flower Colour: White

Shark Bay Daisy

Member - John and Val — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 01:41:00 GMT

This conspicuous daisy has large flowers about 5cm across. The scrambling plant climbs over adjoining shrubs and displays its flowers during winter and spring.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Pembertonia Species: latisquamea Main Flower Colour: Blue

Showy Copper-wire Daisy

Member - John and Val — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:50:00 GMT

An attractive daisy with large bright flowerheads. Sparsely woolly to almost smooth perennial to 70 cm high with several stems. Basal leaves to 20 cm long; leaves on stem narrow, spear shaped, to 5 cm long. Inflorescence of one or a few widely spaced heads to 30 mm diam. Florets straw-coloured; ray florets 10–24 mm long. Found in all eastern states, extending west into SA. In woodland and dry forest at lower altitudes and on mountain slopes above 5000ft.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Podolepis Species: jaceoides Main Flower Colour: Yellow

Siloxerus filifolius

John Baas — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 09:43:00 GMT

Decumbent to erect annual, herb, 0.01-0.065 m high. Fl. white-cream/yellow, Oct to Dec or Jan. Variety of soils. Moist situations.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Siloxerus Species: filifolius Main Flower Colour: Cream

Silver Snow Daisy

Member - John and Val — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 21:46:00 GMT

An attractive perennial herb that can put on a lovely summer display in alpine meadows and among high altitude woodland. Leaves are elongated and form a dense basal rosette. Each leaf has longitudinal white markings and the underside is covered with a mat of white hairs. Flower stalks are taller then the leaves, growing to 30cm tall. Flower heads are large, about 6cm across with bright white ray florets and yellow disc florets.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Celmisia Species: longifolia Main Flower Colour: White

Simpson Desert Daisy - Yellow Billybutton

David W8 — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 09:30:00 GMT

Family: Asteraceae Genus: Calocephalus Species: platycephalus Main Flower Colour: Yellow

Soft Billybuttons

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:51:00 GMT

Ascending or erect herb with many stems to 40 cm high. Cauline leaves oblong to oblanceolate, 3–7 cm long, 2–10 mm wide, apex broad-acute, gland-tipped; lamina concolorous, olive-brown to green, with glandular hairs and septate flattened hairs, especially on margins. Compound head single and ovoid or globose or branched below or from the centre, giving rise to smaller secondary globose heads; main compound head 10–20 mm long, 10–15 mm diam.; partial heads c. 40–60, sessile, each with 4–6 florets; main bract of the partial involucre with broad yellow scarious margins and a narrow brown thickened and glandular stereome, finely ciliate. Corollas lemon-yellow.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Pycnosorus Species: pleiocephalus Main Flower Colour: Yellow

Splendid Everlasting

Member - John and Val — Sat, 19 Apr 2014 05:07:00 GMT

Annual herb to about 50cm high. Leaves up to 3cm long. Flower heads about 5cm across. Flowers which may be white, cream, pink or yellow form after rain.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Rhodanthe Species: chlorocephala Main Flower Colour: White

Sticky Everlasting

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 00:25:00 GMT

Annual herb with basal leaves and erect unbranched stems to 40cm high. Flower heads are solitary, 20-45mm across, bracts shiny, papery, pink to white, disc yellow.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Lawrencella Species: davenportii Main Flower Colour: Pink

Woolly Sunray

John Baas — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:51:00 GMT

Erect annual, herb, 0.1-0.45 m high. Fl. yellow, Jul to Nov. Red sand, lateritic pebbly soils. Dunes, sandplains.
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Leucochrysum Species: stipitatum Main Flower Colour: Yellow

Yam Daisy

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:52:00 GMT

Perennial herb to 40 cm high with fleshy tuberous roots. Leaves all basal, linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 4–30 cm long, 2–15 mm wide, apex acute, base tapered, toothed with teeth pointing downwards, lamina glabrous, dark olive green with prominent midvein. Heads nodding until mature, usually 15–20 mm diam.; outer bracts 2- or 3-seriate, broad-lanceolate, appressed, 3–7 mm long; inner bracts 2-seriate, narrow-lanceolate, 16–24 mm long. Ray florets bright to pale yellow, 15–25 mm long. Achenes 8–10 mm long, 10-ribbed, glabrous to minutely pubescent; pappus 10–12 straw-coloured scales
Family: Asteraceae Genus: Microseris Species: lanceolata Main Flower Colour: Yellow