Olearia pannosa, commonly known as silver-leaved daisy or velvet daisy-bush,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia.

It is a spreading undershrub or shrub with egg-shaped or heart-shaped leaves, and white and yellow daisy flowers.

Olearia pannosa is a spreading undershrub or shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) and forms a root suckers.

[2][3] Olearia pannosa was first formally described in 1852 by William Jackson Hooker in his Icones Plantarum from specimens collected near the Murray River in South Australia.

[4][5] In 1853, Ferdinand von Mueller described Eurybia cardiophylla in the journal Linnaea from specimens collected on Mount Remarkable in South Australia,[6][7] but in 1986, David Cooke reduced this species to Olearia pannosa subsp.