Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Olearia ramulosa

Flowering branches. Photographer Richard Hartland, Anglers Rest, Vic

Flowering branches. Photographer Richard Hartland, Anglers Rest, Vic

Flowering branch. Photographer Don Wood, Ben Boyd National Park south of Eden

Flowering shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Twiggy daisy-bush

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, heath, stream banks, and gullies. Widespread.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets appressed white-cottony, bristly, or sticky. Leaves alternating up the stems, scattered to crowded, 0.2–1.5 cm long, 0.8–2.5 mm wide, upper surface covered with minute warts, rough, or bristly, lower surface white- or grey-woolly, sometimes sticky, sometimes obscured by the rolled down margins, tips rounded, without a mucro. Flower heads with 2–13 'petals', pale blue or mauve or white, and yellow or mauve centres. Flower heads about 10–25 mm in diameter overall, conical below the 'petals'. Flower heads single, stalked or stalkless, often forming long leafy clusters up the stems. Flowering: October–May.

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