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Velvet Daisybush

Olearia pannosa

Velvet Daisybush
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub

About

Olearia pannosa, commonly known as silver-leaved daisy or velvet daisy-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a spreading undershrub or shrub with egg-shaped or heart-shaped leaves, and white and yellow daisy flowers.

Where it grows

Both subspecies of O. pannosa occur in the south-east of South Australia, but only subspecies cardiophylla occurs in Victoria, where it grows in dry forest on rocky sites in scattered locations.

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

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