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Olearia incana

Olearia incana is a small Australian shrub in the daisy family with grey woolly leaves and white and pale yellow daisy-like flowers. It grows in open woodland and sandy flats, so it needs full sun and very well-drained soil.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established and let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor, dry soils.
Temperature
Hardy to about -8 °C; protect young plants from prolonged frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Australia

About

Olearia incana is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to southern Australia. It is a shrub with narrowly elliptic or wedge-shaped leaves and white and pale yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.

Where it grows

Olearia incana grows in open woodland and forest, on flats and sandplains in the south-east of Western Australia, the southern half of South Australia, eastern Victoria and western New South Wales.

Other Olearia plants

Olearia adenocarpa · Olearia adenolasia · Olearia aglossa · Alpine Daisy Bush · Daisy bush · Olearia alpicola · Olearia angulata · Olearia archeri · Olearia arguta · Olearia arida · Rough Daisy Bush · Marble Daisy Bush

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Olearia incana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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