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Olearia revoluta

Olearia revoluta
Photo: Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0

Olearia revoluta is a compact, rounded shrub from the sandplains of south-western Western Australia, grown for its small white daisy flowers and grey-woolly foliage. It is a species, and it suits sunny, well-drained sites.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then reduce to occasional deep watering; it tolerates dry conditions once established.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty soil; poor drainage causes root rot.
Temperature
10–35 °C; tolerates light frost and hot dry summers.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Western Australia

About

Olearia revoluta is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, rounded shrub with linear to oblong leaves with the edges rolled under, and white daisy-like inflorescences.

Where it grows

This olearia grows in sand over sandstone, on the sandplains toward Geraldton and beyond Esperance in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains and Yalgoo bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

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 revoluta 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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