Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Ozothamnus argophyllus
Spicy Everlasting
Asteraceae
Forest and woodland. Coast, ranges, and tablelands, south from the Wollongong area and the Southern Highlands.
Shrub to 3 m high. Branchlets densely white cottony. Leaves smell musky or spicy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2.2–8 cm long, 3.5–12 mm wide, upper surface green and sticky, lower surface white-felty and glistening with droplets of glandular exudate, midvein and the margins hairless, margins flat or more or less curved down, tips somewhat pointed. Flower heads narrow-bell-shaped to top-shaped, 3.5–5 mm long, 1.5–3 mm in diameter. Florets 7–21, white. 19–28 bracts appressed to the flower heads, outer bracts leathery, golden, often red to pink in bud, inner bracts opaque white. Flower heads in dense clusters of 30–200, at the tops of the stems. Flowering: spring–summer.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ozothamnus~argophyllus (accessed 29 January, 2021)
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