Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Ozothamnus thyrsoideus
Common name
Sticky Everlasting, Sticky Everlasting Bush
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, shrubland, and roadsides at higher altitudes. Widespread south and east of the Hume Highway.
Notes
Shrub to about 3 m high. Branches angular below the leaf stalks which continue down the stems, with a dense white or grey tomentum, sometimes sticky. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.8–7 cm long, 0.5–3 mm wide, upper surface dark grey-green and somewhat sticky or resinous, lower surface with a matted white or yellowish tomentum, tips blunt, margins more or less curved down to rolled down. Flower heads 3–5 mm long, 1.5–6.5 mm in diameter, bell-shaped, top-shaped, or cylindrical, with 10–35 florets. 18–45 bracts appressed to the flower heads, outer bracts dry and membranous, shiny golden-brown or tinged pale pink, inner bracts white, the backs sometimes flushed with red. Flower heads in dense clusters of 5–40 at the ends of short side branches, often only on the upper side. Flowering: spring-summer. Often prolific after fire or other disturbance
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ozothamnus~thyrsoideus (accessed 29 January, 2021)
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