Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Olearia microphylla
Common name
Small-leaved daisy-bush, Twiggy daisy-bush
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, heath, and shrubland. Widespread north from the ACT. Occasionally farther south.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Stems with sparse woolly hairs, sometimes sticky. Leaves alternating up the stems, crowded, often spoon-shaped, 0.2–0.7 cm long, 1–3 mm wide, tips pointed or rounded, without a mucro; margins entire, strongly rolled down, upper surface green, rough and warty, lower surface greenish, brown, or grey, woolly. Flower heads with 6–9 white 'petals', and yellow to white or beige centres. Flower heads 9–17 mm in diameter overall, at the ends of side branches, single, often appearing to be in many-flowered clusters. Flowering: June–December.
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~microphylla (accessed 25 January, 2021)
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