Cut-leaf Daisy - native (Brachyscome multifida)

Family: Asteraceae (Daisy family).

Native.

Occurrence: Uncommon, but may be locally abundant e.g. in northern parts of Smiths Reef forest.

Identification:

• it has (usually) white daisy-flowers with a yellow centre
• the leaves are much divided into narrow segments (and hence multifida and "cut-leaf")
• it is low-growing.

Cut-leaf Daisy is widely planted, particularly as a rockery plant. Some forms have pale-purple to purple petals.

It is a variable species, including variation in the number of chromosomes.

Name. brachy = short; come = hair, referring to the short hairs on the seeds.

Photos 1: Garden specimen with pale purple flowers. 2, 3: Smiths Reef.