Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Ozothamnus conditus

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

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

Shrub. Photographer Messina, Andre, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Board, Melbourne

Line drawings. g. flowering branch; flower head; leaf. E Beckett, University of Oxford, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board, Melbourne, Vic

Common name

Pepper Everlasting

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Forest, shrubland, and rocky areas. ACT, tablelands, and Kosciuszko National Park. Ranges and coast south from the Snowy Mountains Highway.

Notes

Shrub to 3 m high, usually sprawling. Stems with a dense appressed yellowish tomentum, and glistening with resin droplets. Leaves spicily aromatic, alternating up the stems, 1–2.8 cm long, 1.5–3 mm wide, upper surface dark green and hairless or almost hairless, lower surface pale green or cream with a dense yellowish or white appressed sticky tomentum, tips pointed or blunt, margins flat or more or less curved down. Flower heads bell-shaped, 3–4 mm long, 1.5–3 mm in diameter. Florets 13–18. 28–37 white bracts appressed to the flower heads. Flower heads  in almost round clusters of 20–80 at the tops of the branchlets. Flowering: spring–summer.

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=Ozothamnus~conditus   (accessed 29 January, 2021)