It is a shrub with small, crowded, narrowly elliptic leaves and white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.

Olearia archeri is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 2 m (6.6 ft), its foliage covered with T-shaped hairs.

Flowering occurs from September to March and the fruit is a brown achene, the pappus with 66–85 bristles.

[2] Olearia archeri was first formally described in 1989 by Nicholas Sèan Lander in the journal Muelleria from specimens collected by Ann and David Ratkowsky at Cash's lookout on Eaglehawk Neck in 1973.

[2] This daisy-bush grows in shady places in open forest on stony hillsides on the east coast of Tasmania, at altitudes up to 650 m (2,130 ft).