Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Olearia pimeleoides

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, west of Kimba, SA

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, western NSW

Shrub. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, western NSW

Common name

A Daisy-bush

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Dry forest, mallee, woodland, and shrubland. Western Slopes.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m tall. Branchlets densely white-hairy. Leaves scattered or alternating up the stems, 0.3-2.5 cm long, 1-7 mm wide, upper surface sparsely hairy, lower surface densely white hairy, margins rolled down and sometimes toothed, tips pointed or blunt or rounded, without a mucro.  Flower heads with 8-25 white, rarely mauve, ‘petals’ and yellow centres. Flower heads 13–37 mm in diameter overall, hemispherical, bell-shaped, or broadly conical to cylindrical below the 'petals', single or in open clusters of 2-3.

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Olearia~pimeleoides  (accessed 29 January, 2021)