Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Olearia floribunda
Common name
Heath daisy-bush
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and near swampy areas. ACT, the mountains to the west, and Kosciuszko National Park. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 4 m high or sprawling. Branchlets densely hairy, sticky, sometimes becoming more or less hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, crowded, in loose clusters, 0.05–0.3 cm long, 0.3–1 mm wide, upper surface hairless or almost hairless, sometimes rough towards the margins, venation indistinct, margins thick and rolled down, partly to largely obscuring the grey-hairy lower surface, tips pointed or blunt.'Petals' 3–7, white to pink, mauve, or blue, and cream to mauve centres. Flower heads 8–13 mm in diameter overall, conical below the 'petals'. Flower heads single, appearing clustered, terminating short lateral branches or leaf clusters. Flowering: July–February.
Intergrades with Olearia algida in Vic.
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=Olearia~floribunda (accessed 28 January, 2021)
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