Ixodia achillaeoides, commonly known as mountain daisy,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is found in South Australia and Victoria. It is a small shrub with sticky, smooth branchlets and small white flowers in spring and summer.
Ixodia achillaeoides is a small understory shrub up to high, stems smooth, sticky and branched. The leaves are variable from linear to egg-shaped, sticky, long, decurrent, dark green on upper surface, paler on the underside and a prominent mid-vein. The inflorescence is an urn-shaped to oval-shaped cluster of 3-80 white flowers with yellow centres at the end of stems. Individual flowers long and in diameter, sessile or on a short peduncle. The fruit is a cypsela long and covered with soft hairs. Flowering mostly occurs in spring and summer.[2] [3]
Ixodia achillaeoides was first formally described in 1812 by Robert Brown and the description was published in Hortus Kewensis.[4] [5] The specific epithet (achilleoides) refers to the similarity of the inflorescence to those of plants in the genus Achillea.[6]
This species has a scattered distribution in Victoria. A widespread species in South Australia, occurring in woodland, scrubland and forest.[2] [3]