Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Olearia asterotricha

Flowering branches (subnspecies unknown). Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering shrub (subnspecies unknown). Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Rough daisy-bush

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Dry forest and heath in mountainous areas. Ranges and the eastern edge of the tablelands, north of Marulan.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high, rather sprawling. Branchlets stellate-hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating up the stems, scattered, or crowded, 0.6–2.7 cm long, 2–10 mm wide, margins toothed or lobed or entire, and curved to rolled down, surfaces glaucous and bluish-green, or the upper surface stellate-hairy and green, lower surface grey-stellate-hairy; venation indistinct. Flower heads 21–40 mm in diameter overall, about hemispherical below the 'petals', with 9–21 white 'petals', and yellow centres. Flower heads at the tops of the stems, single or clustered. Flowering: October–July.

Rare Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Olearia~asterotricha   (accessed 5 March 2021)

Description partly based on Messina, A., Walsh, N.G., Hoebee, S.E. & Green, P.T. (9 December 2014), A revision of Olearia section Asterotriche (Asteraceae: Astereae). Australian Systematic Botany 27(3): 210-214, Figs 7A (map), 8