Flower and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Flowers and leaves. Photo: Russell Best, near Melbourne, Vic

Leaves. Photo: Russell Best, near Melbourne, Vic

Shrub. Photo: Russell Best, near Melbourne, Vic

Shrub. Photo: Russell Best, near Melbourne, Vic

Common Name

Clammy Daisy Bush

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Shrub to 2m tall.  Leaves aromatic when crushed, alternating up the stems, scattered, or clustered.  Leaves 0.7-5cm long, 1-5mm wide, flat to narrow and flat, sticky, hairless, the edges curved to rolled down, sometimes toothed, the tips pointed.  Flowers with 3-6 white ‘petals’, and yellow centres. Flower heads cylindrical, in open groups of 2-9 at the ends of the stems.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 643

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Olearia~decurrens