Brachyscome microcarpa, commonly known as forest daisy,[1] is a perennial herb in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Australia. It has mostly white or mauve daisy-like flowers, a yellow centre, variable shaped leaves and flowers from October to January.
Brachyscome microcarpa is a spreading or slightly upright perennial up to high with glandular-softly hairy to sometimes smooth stems. The leaves at the base of the stem when present are rounded to spoon-shaped, pinnate or scalloped, up to long with a petiole. Higher leaves are narrowly egg-shaped to wedge shaped or circular, scalloped to pinnate with linear lobes up to long, occasionally palmate and with a petiole. The flowers are borne singly, in diameter, peduncle glabrous up to long, bracts narrowly egg-shaped, rounded with jagged margins and the petals are usually white or bluish mauve. Flowering occurs from October to November and the fruit is an achene, egg-shaped to wedge-shaped, flattened, brown to black, warty, hairy and long.[1]
Brachyscome microcarpa was first formally described in 1858 by Ferdinand von Mueller and the description was published in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae.[2] The specific epithet (microcarpa) means "small fruited".[3]
Forest daisy grows north of Newcastle and Queensland in well-drained locations in forests.[1]