tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2171765088403710716.post4740342427197991273..comments2024-02-06T20:59:17.306-08:00Comments on Toowoomba Plants: HawkweedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2171765088403710716.post-59578893494453072432012-12-14T16:34:07.665-08:002012-12-14T16:34:07.665-08:00Picris barbarorum is another rare species on the D...Picris barbarorum is another rare species on the Darling Downs. It tends to be found further west on the plains, rather than on the eastern foothills where P. evae is more likely to be found.<br /><br />P. barbarorum does not have a woolly coma like P. evae. Instead there are bristly hairs in neat vertical lines.<br /><br />P. barbarorum is extinct in Victoria, the only record being from an Aboriginal woman's dilly bag in early Colonial times. I am not sure of its status in NSW. It can be quite common here on the grasslands of the Darling Downs, particularly when rains have followed a very long dry spell. But it can then become very scarse for decades.<br /><br />In the garden it performs very much like P. evae and comes up reliably from seed each year. The plant has similar growth habit and flowers to P. evae.Ian Menkinsnoreply@blogger.com