Cassinia ozothamnoides, commonly known as cottony haeckeria,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Victoria, Australia.
It is an erect shrub with hairy branchlets, linear leaves and corymbs of up to two hundred flower heads.
Cassinia ozothamnoides is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) with its branchlets densely covered with woolly white hairs.
[2] This species was first formally described in 1855 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Haeckeria ozothamnoides in his Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants.
[6] Cassinia ozothamnoides grows in open forest at altitudes from 170 to 300 m (560 to 980 ft) in central Victoria, often in disturbed sites.