Scientific Name: Brachyscome iberidifolia
Common Name: Swan River daisy
Family Name: Asteraceae
Origin: Australia / New Zealand
Hardiness Zone: Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C)
Plant Type: Annual (grown as), Flowering pot plant
Mature Size: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width)
Habit: Dense, Spreading, Upright
Form: Oval - horizontal, Round
Texture: Fine
Landscape Uses: Bedding plant, Container planting, Fall interest, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Hanging basket, Summer interest
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Humus rich, Well-drained
Leaves: Dissected, Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Odd-pinnate, Lanceolate, Oblanceolate, Entire, Pinnately lobed
Flowers: Head (capitulum), White, Blue, Violet, Jul-Aug-Sep
Fruit: Achene, Brown, Sep-Oct
Key ID Features:
Leaves linear, 2-10cm long x 1-2cm wide; margin mostly deeply divided (pinnatisect), ultimate lobes/ segments 2-16mm long x 1-2mm wide, pubescent (softly downy), and gray-green; flower heads 2-4cm wide, ray florets 15-50, 1-2cm long x 2-4mm wide, blue to violet (or white cv.), disc florets nearly black before opeing bright yellow, Jul-Sep.