Asteraceae

Pink Daisy - Streptoglossa sp.

Small prostrate plant. Leaves broad, oval with rough hairs. Flower heads 2cm across. Growing in red loam beside watercourse.

Common Cassinia or Dogwood

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,

Simpson Desert Daisy - Yellow Billybutton

Golden Everlasting

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.

Sand Sunray, Teitkens Daisy

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,

Large-leaf Daisy-bush

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,

Silver Snow Daisy

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.

Siloxerus filifolius

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.

Sticky Everlasting

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.

Yam Daisy

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,

Soft Billybuttons

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,

Woolly Sunray

Erect annual, herb, 0.1-0.45 m high. Fl. yellow, Jul to Nov. Red sand, lateritic pebbly soils. Dunes, sandplains.

Showy Copper-wire Daisy

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,

Poached Egg Daisy,

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.

Rhodanthe citrina

Erect annual, herb, 0.05-0.3(-0.5) m high.

Satin Everlasting

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,

Pink Everlasting

Erect annual, herb, 0.07-0.4(-0.7) m high. Fl. pink & yellow, Jun to Nov. Sandy, loam & clay, often stony soils.

Poached Egg Daisy

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,

Pink Clusters Everlasting, Schoenia

Erect annual herb to about 50cm high. Long straplike leaves. Flowerheads have bright pink papery bracts and are 2 - 3cm across. Endemic to WA,

Pink Everlasting

Erect annual, herb, 0.07-0.4(-0.7) m high. Flowers pink and yellow, Jun to Nov. Sandy, loam & clay, often stony soils.

Goldfields Daisy

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,

Much-branched Daisybush

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

Orange Immortelle

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,

Fringed Daisy Bush - Kangaroo Island Endemic

Dwarf undershrub to 25cm high, with rough hairy stems and tightly compacted, tiny leaves.