Flowers and leaves. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Flowers and leaves. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Leaves. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Flowering shrub. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Shrubby Daisy Bush, Spiked Daisy Bush

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Shrub to 3m tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5-2cm long, 1-3mm wide, linear to flat, hairless to sparsely hairy above, the edges rolled under to almost hide the hairy undersurface, and pointed tips.  Flowers with 2- 6 white ‘petals’ and yellow centres.  Flower heads cylindrical, solitary, on short stalks arising from the bases of the leaves, crowded, so that they appear to be in groups at the ends of the branchlets.  Vulnerable Vic.

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~subspicata