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Border Ranges Daisy

Brachyscome ascendens

Border Ranges Daisy
Photo: 阿橋 HQ, CC BY-SA 2.0

Brachyscome ascendens is a small, trailing perennial daisy native to the rocky basalt slopes of the Border Ranges on the Queensland and New South Wales border. It is grown mainly as a native garden plant, and its key requirement is good drainage.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Water moderately during establishment, then let the top of the soil dry between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, gritty or loamy soil; it grows naturally on rocky basalt slopes.
Temperature
10–28 °C; tolerates light frost but protect from hard freezes
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Queensland

About

Brachyscome ascendens, the Border Ranges daisy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Australia. It has mostly mauve daisy-like flowers and a yellow centre.

Where it grows

Border ranges daisy grows in forests or woodland on rocky basalt slopes from the McPherson Range area and to the east near the New South Wales and Queensland border.

Other Brachyscome plants

Hill Daisy · Grass Daisy · Swamp Daisy · Brachyscome bellidioides · Brachyscome campylocarpa · Brachyscome chrysoglossa · Bushy cut leaf daisy · Field Daisy · Brachyscome dichromosomatica · Brachyscome dissectifolia · Brachyscome gilesii · Grass Daisy

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Brachyscome ascendens by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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