Lagenophora stipitata

Lagenophora stipitata, the blue bottle-daisy or common bottle-daisy, is a small, tufted, rosette-forming herbaceous perennial in the family Asteraceae, native to Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and parts of Malesia and South America, where it grows in open grassy forests, woodlands, montane herbfields, damp grassland and lawns. Plants form a flat basal rosette 3 to 8 centimetres across of obovate to spathulate leaves 1 to 5 centimetres long, gradually narrowed to a winged petiolar base, with toothed to shallowly lobed margins, usually a few coarse hairs scattered over the surface, and dull mid-green colouration. From spring to autumn each rosette produces one to several slender, leafless, hairy scapes 5 to 25 centimetres tall, each bearing a single small terminal flower head 8 to 15 millimetres across, with one to several rows of narrow ray florets that are white above and often tinged mauve, pink or blue beneath, surrounding a yellow disc. The fruit is a small, glandular-hairy, obovate achene without a pappus, dispersed by sticking to passers-by.