Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Ozothamnus secundiflorus
Common name
Cascade everlasting
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, heath, and in the shelter of large boulders, in subalpine or sheltered alpine sites. ACT and Kosciuszko National Park. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Branches glandular and with a dense white or grey tomentum. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 0.6–3.5 cm long, 1.5–3.5 mm wide, tips blunt to pointed, margins curved down, upper surface dark grey, sticky and appressed cobwebby, lower surface pale grey to white, woolly. Flower heads bell-shaped to top-shaped, 3.5–5 mm long, 2–6 mm in diameter, with 15–20 florets. 15–25 bracts appressed to the flower heads, outer bracts dry, membranous, and shiny, golden-brown to dull-yellow, or tinged pale pink, inner bracts white. Flower heads in small rounded to hemispherical clusters of 20–45, about 20-30 mm in diameter, on short lateral branches along one side of the tops of the stems. Flowering: summer–autumn.
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~secundiflorus (accessed 29 January, 2021)
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