Common Name: Yam Daisy
Botanical Name: Microseris lanceolata
Family: COMPOSITAE
Description:
Perennial herb, forms a tuft, 10-40 cm high. Narrow, from the base of plant, often with notched edges, to 30 cm long. Single stalks distinctively drooped over in bud before becoming erect when in flower with yellow daisy. Winter to spring.
Perennial herb, forms a tuft, 10-40 cm high. Narrow, from the base of plant, often with notched edges, to 30 cm long. Single stalks distinctively drooped over in bud before becoming erect when in flower with yellow daisy. Winter to spring.
Natural Distribution:
Common to forests, woodlands, mallee and grasslands in all agricultural districts of SA. Also occurs in WA, NSW, Vic and Tas.
Common to forests, woodlands, mallee and grasslands in all agricultural districts of SA. Also occurs in WA, NSW, Vic and Tas.
Notes:
Other similar flowers are Flatweeds (Hypochaeris spp.) which do not have the drooped head of the bud and have a flat rosette rather than a tuft of leaves at the base. No regional conservation status recorded.
Other similar flowers are Flatweeds (Hypochaeris spp.) which do not have the drooped head of the bud and have a flat rosette rather than a tuft of leaves at the base. No regional conservation status recorded.
