Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Olearia cordata

Flower head and leafy stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

A Daisy-bush

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Dry forest and open shrubland. Coast and ranges north of Windsor (west of Sydney).

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high. Stems and leaves rough, sticky, hairy. Sweetly aromatic. Leaves alternating up the stems, scattered, 1–4 cm long, 2–8 mm wide, surfaces densely glandular, tips pointed or rounded, finely mucronate, bases cordate. Flower heads 22-35 mm diamter overall, with 10-18 deep blue or mauve, rarely white,  'petals', and yellow centres. Flower heads at the tops of the stems, single. Flowering: November–April

Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

NSW Threatened Species profile:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10576 (accessed 7 January, 2021)

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Olearia~cordata  (accessed 7 January, 2021)