Slender Bottle-daisy

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Lagenophora gracilis

Dark green-bluish spade-shaped leaves with sparse hairs with wavy toothed margins. Stender smooth blackish stem up to 20 cm tall bearing a single small white to blue to mauve fine daisy flower.

Details
Flora Type
Herbs
Former Scientific Name
Lagenifera gracilis
Distinctive Features

Single tufted plant arising from thick tuberous roots.
Biology

Perennial. Moist places in the northern parts of its range but tends to be in dry situations in Vic.
Native Status
Native
Flowering Time

Sep-Feb
Taxonomy
Phylum
Tracheophyta (Vascular Plants)
Class
Magnoliopsida (Flowering Plants)
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Lagenophora
Species
stipitata

Source: Atlas of Living Australia

Interesting Facts
Similar Species

Similar to Coarse Bottle-Daisy L. huegelli which has deeply lobed densely hairy leaves with wavy margins.
Native Status
Native