Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Olearia axillaris

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

Flowering branches. Photographer Don Wood, Barragoot Lake south of Bermagui

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer AN Schmidt-Lebuhn, Cervantes, WA

Common name

Coast daisy-bush

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Heath and shrubland on dunes and hillsides. Coastal cliffs. Coastal south from Jervis Bay.

Notes

Shrub to about 2 m high. Branchles densely white-cottony, slightly sticky. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.4–4 cm long, 1–6 mm wide, upper surface weakly grey-woolly, cobwebby, or hairless, green or grey-green, lower surface grey- to white-woolly, margins curved to rolled down, tips pointed or rounded. Flower heads 3–13 mm in diameter overall, conical to cylindrical below the 'petals', with 2-6 white 'petals', the 'petals' often very short or not developing, and yellow centres. Flower heads at the bases of the leaves, single. Flowering: November–July.

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