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Olearia quercifolia

Olearia quercifolia
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Olearia quercifolia, oak-leaved olearia, is a shrub endemic to the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, with lobed, woolly-backed leaves and white and yellow daisy flowers. Keep it moist, as it grows naturally in swampy ground.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist, especially in its growing season.
Soil
Moist, humus-rich, well-drained but damp loam; acidic to neutral.
Temperature
10–25 °C; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
CE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Olearia quercifolia, commonly known as oak-leaved olearia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, and is endemic to the Blue Mountains in New South Wales. It is a shrub with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and white and yellow daisy flowers.

Where it grows

Oak-leaved olearia grows in swampy places in the Blue Mountains of eastern 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 quercifolia 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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