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Olearia minor

Olearia minor
Photo: Allthingsnative, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Western Australia

About

Olearia minor, is a small flowering shrub in the family Asteraceae. It has alternate leaves and white to pale mauve daisy-like flowers from winter to December. It grows in Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, and Victoria.

Where it grows

This species grows in mallee or open scrubland on loam or yellow brown sand or rocky slopes mostly around Balranald district, Dubbo and the Budawang Range in New South Wales. In Victoria a scattered distribution on loamy soils with mallee in the north-west near Bambill to near the Little Desert and dry forest in the northern Brisbane Ranges and Werribbee Gorge. In South Australia, this daisy-bush is widely distributed in the south of the state, including on Kangaroo Island. In Western Australia it grows in sandstone, limestone, sand dunes or rocky slopes amongst mallee or scrubland near Coolgardie, Esperance and the wheatbelt.

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 minor by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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