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Swan River
The name of a river in Western Australia, used attrib. in Swan River daisy, an annual herb of the genus Brachycome, esp. B. iberidifolia, belonging to the family Compositæ, native to Western and South Australia, and bearing pinnate leaves and blue, violet, or white flowers resembling daisies.
[1841J. Lindley in Edward's Bot. Reg. XXVII. 9 Mr. Lowe, of Clapton, has also raised the Large Swan Daisy.] 1873W. B. Hemsley Handbk. Hardy Trees, Shrubs, & Herbacious Plants 235 Swan River Daisy.—An erect glabrous annual about a foot high. 1915W. Stevens Let. 25 July (1967) 184 Another new thing was what is called swan-river daisies from Australia. 1957J. S. Dakers Annuals xiii. 92 Swan River Daisy..one of the most beautiful of all our annuals. 1962R. Page Educ. Gardener xi. 302 The cypresses are underplanted with sheets of..the blue Swan River daisy. |