alpine_flora_of_australia's Identifications

We had never seen this common local post-disturbance coloniser on our place (in 35+ years) until after the Sept 2018 wildfire. We now have a couple of patches totalling around 40 plants in our forest. Some are around 1.5m high, including this flowering one. It is the only one with any bud or flower on it, and there are no signs of past flowering on any of the plants, so seemingly it has taken nearly 4 years for them to get established and make it to the point of flowering, an unusually long period for a herbaceous daisy I would have thought.

On rhyolite outcrop, after high intensity fire in 2019-20 fires. The plant in the 2nd photo has obviously flowered in the season just past, and the one in the 1st photo still has a single flower on it.

Very numerous seedlings on a rhyolite oucrop burnt at high intensity in the 2019-20 fires. Also seen on track verges driving in, but not much in forest between the track and the outcrop. The hairy leaf upper surface makes it this common and widespread species. Many plants starting to form bud at c. 2 yrs post-fire, and a few with a single cluster of old spent flowers from last spring-summer.

Very numerous on and around the base of a rhyolite outcrop burnt at high intensity in the 2019-20 fires, and up to about 2m high, flowering & fruiting. I keyed a specimen to this species. The 4th photo shows the spines on the fruits have sparse stellate hairs with a terminal tuft, which distinguishes it from rugosa and breviseta.