Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Olearia lepidophylla
Common name
Club-moss Daisy Bush
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Mallee and stream banks. Western Slopes. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m tall. Branchlets densely white sticky hairy. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, appearing clustered, 0.05-0.25 cm long, less than 1 mm wide, upper surface very convex, hairless or sparsely hairy, sometimes glandular, lower surface pale grey-woolly, sometimes glandular, margins rolled down, tips pointed or rounded. Flower heads 6–15 mm in diameter overall, with 3-8 white 'petals', and yellow or mauve to purple centres. Flower heads cylindrical or narrowly conical below the 'petals'. Flowers single, sometimes in loose clusters, or in tight clusters appearing like spikes. Flowers Summer-Winter.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Olearia~lepidophylla (accessed 29 January, 2021)
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