Olearia viscidula

Olearia viscidula, commonly known as the viscid daisy bush or wallaby weed,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales.

It is a shrub with scattered narrow elliptic or egg-shaped leaves that are paler on the lower surface, and panicles of white flowers arranged in leaf axils.

The disc is cream or yellow and rays are white, the daisy-like flower heads 0.8 to 1.7 cm (0.31 to 0.67 in) in diameter.

[2][3] Viscid daisy bush was first formally described in 1858 by Ferdinand von Mueller and given the name Eurybia viscidula Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from material collected by Charles Moore near Goulburn.

[3] Olearia viscidula occurs in eastern New South Wales, where it is found south of the Nandewar Rangesand where it grows in tall eucalypt forest and rainforest as well as dry sclerophyll forest and woodland, on medium- or high-nutrient soils.

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