Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Olearia stickyula

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

Flowering branches. Photographer Don Wood, near Nowra

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

Common name

Wallaby weed, sticky daisy bush

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Forest and woodland. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands. Occasionally elsewhere. Doubtfully naturalised in the ACT.

Notes

Shrub to 2.5 m high. Stems sticky. Leaves alternating up the stems or opposite each other, scattered, 1.5–10 cm long, 2–11 mm wide, tips pointed, without a mucro; margins entire and flat, upper surface sticky and green, lower surface grey- or white-felted. Flower heads with 8–21 white 'petals' and cream or yellow centres, 8–17 mm in diameter overall. Flower heads stalked, single or in clusters, at the bases of the leaves. Flowering: July–November

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