Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Olearia lirata

Common name

Snowy daisy-bush

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Forest, shrubland, gullies, and along streams. Widespread, mostly south and east of the Hume Highway.

Notes

Shrub to 4 m high. Branchlets greyish-white with dense stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), later bcoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3–15 cm long, 5–35 mm wide, thin, with tiny wrinkles, upper surface green with deeply impressed and obvious veins, rough, hairless or nearly so, lower surface greyish-white with stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see) with scattered longer hairs; margins mostly entire, and wavy or toothed. Flower heads with 10–16 white 'petals', and cream to yellow centres. Flower heads 12–25 mm in diameter overall, more or less hemispherical below the 'petals', in loose clusters. Flowers August – January

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~lirata (accessed 25 January, 2021)