Olearia xerophila is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic northern Australia.

Olearia xerophila is an erect, sticky subshrub that typically grows to a height of up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in), and has reddish or yellowish-brown stems when young.

Flowering mainly occurs from June to September and the fruit is a flattened oval achene 2.0–2.2 mm (0.079–0.087 in) long, the pappus with 20 to 30 bristles.

[2][3] This daisy was first formally described in 1858 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Eurybia xerophila in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected near the Burdekin River.

[7] Olearia xerophila grows in shrubland or woodland in crevices on rocky hills, scree slopes, gorges or creek beds in the Gascoyne, Murchison and Pilbara bioregions of Western Australia and in northern Queensland.