ASTERACEAE (COMPOSITAE)

Rosette Alpine Fleabane

 

 

Daisy-like, purple and white. 

Achenes 

Yellowish-green rosette herb with flowers amongst leaves or stalks exceeding leaves. 

Break O'Day; Central Highlands; Derwent Valley; Dorset; Glamorgan-Spring Bay; Huon Valley; Kentish; Meander Valley; West Coast 

Montane Vegetation 

Tas. endemic. Common on subalpine herbfields. Most common in the central and western mountains. 

Exposed; Moist; Windy 

 

Loam; Phosphorous intolerant; Poor; Well-drained 

Elliott and Jones describes the flowers as yellow and white, Kirkpatrick desribes them as purple and white, perhaps there is some confusion re. classification. In cultivation it will need moist but well drained, acid to neutral soils with plenty of organic matter and a sunny situation. Flowers well during summer as a container plant when pots are placed on capillary matting to maintain moisture supply or when pots are buried in moist, coarse sand. Suitable below powerlines. 

Fruit, achenes, flattened with pappus of capillary bristles 

Standard 

Short 

 

May be grown from seed. 

 

 

 

 

Yes 

May be grown from cuttings. May also be grown from division of creeping rhizomes.