Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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)
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