Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Cassinia laevis
Common name
Cough bush, Dead finish
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Open woodland, mallee, shubland, and other habitats. Rocky sites. Western Slopes and tablelands. Ranges north of Bowral. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m tall. Stems usually with prominent scars from the bases of fallen leaves, white woolly. Leaves with a curry-like or unpleasant odour. Leaves alternating up the stems or crowded, 1-5 cm long, about 1 mm wide, upper surface shiny, hairless, lower surface sticky hairy, margins rolled down, almost concealing the lower surface, bases continuing down the stems, tips blunt to pointed. Flower heads 3-4 mm long, creamy white to cream or straw coloured, cylindrical to oval or bell-shaped, with 2-10 florets with 0 petals, in dense to loose branched clusters. Flowers Spring to Autumn.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cassinia~laevis (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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