Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Olearia alpicola

Flowering branch. Photographer Don Wood, Bondi State Forest south of Bombala

Common name

Alpine daisy-bush

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Forest in mountainous terrain. Ranges and tablelands south of  Jervis Bay.

Notes

Shrub to 2.5 m high. Branches hairy with minute T-shaped hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves opposite each other, 2.5–13 cm long, 3–23 mm wide, upper surface hairless and green, lower surface white- to grey-hairy, venation reticulate, margins entire and rolled down, tips blunt to pointed, finely mucronate. Flower heads conical, 9–25 mm in diameter overall, 4-5 mm long, with 5-8 white 'petals', and yellow centres. Flower heads in clusters at the ends of the stems. Flowering: December–February.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Olearia~alpicola   (accessed 23 January, 2021)