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Showy Daisybush

Olearia pimeleoides

Also called Showy Daisy Bush, Pimelea Daisy Bush, Pimelea Daisybush

Showy Daisybush
Photo: Melburnian, CC BY 3.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Olearia pimeleoides, commonly known as pimelea daisy-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is an erect shrub with elliptic, linear or lance-shaped leaves, and white and pale yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.

Where it grows

Pimelea daisy-bush is widespread and common in southern Australia, where it grows in mallee woodlands and shrublands, and in forest. It is widespread in the south-west of Western Australia, the south-east of South Australia, north-western Victoria and on the western plains of 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 pimeleoides 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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