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alpine daisy-bush
Olearia algida
Olearia algida (Alpine Daisy-bush) is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a shrub to 1 metre high with crowded leaves. These are dark green above and woolly underneath and have revolute edges. The flowerheads have 2 to 6 white ray florets. The species was first formally described in The Victorian Naturalist in 1956 by Norman Wakefield. It occurs near swampy areas within heath and grassland in high altitude areas of south-eastern...
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Description
Olearia algida is a bushy shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.7–1 m (2 ft 4 in – 3 ft 3 in) and has cottony-hairy young branchlets. The leaves are arranged alternately and crowded, elliptic to narrow egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 1–3 mm (0.039–0.118 in) long and 0.5–1 mm (0.020–0.039 in) wide with the edges rolled under, the upper surface glabrous but the lower surface woolly-hairy. The daisy-like capitula are arranged singly on the ends of short side-branches and are 7–12 mm (0.28–0.47 in) in diameter. There are two to six white petal-like ray florets with ligules 2.5–5.5 mm (0.098–0.217 in) long, surrounding two to six yellow disc florets. Flowering mainly occurs from October to February and the cypselae are about 1.5 mm (0.059 in) long with bristles about 3 mm (0.12 in) long.
Range & habitat
Alpine daisy-bush grows in heath, shrubland and grassland near swampy places in alpine and subalpine areas south from Mount Gingera in the Australian Capital Territory, through southern New South Wales to eastern Victoria and Tasmania. It is also cultivated in New Zealand.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 323136.