Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Ozothamnus rosmarinifolius

Common name

Rosemary Everlasting

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Forest, heath, shrubland, along streams, and swampy places. Ranges, tablelands, ACT, the mountains to the west, and Kosciuszko National Park. Occasionally coastal.

Notes

Shrub to 4.5 m high. Stems densely cottony, greyish. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5–5 cm long, 1–2 mm wide, upper surface dark green and rough, lower surface pale grey- or brown-tomentose, largely obscured by the strongly rolled down margins, tips pointed. Flower heads narrow-bell-shaped, 2–4 mm long, 1–3 mm in diameter, with 4–14 florets. 17–24 bracts appressed to the flower heads, outer bracts membranous, golden, sometimes reddish, inner bracts white. Flower heads in 200–500 flowered hemispherical clusters at the tops of the stems. 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~rosmarinifolius (accessed 29 January, 2021)