Coastal daisy-bush | |
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Olearia axillaris flowers near Broulee | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Genus: | Olearia |
Species: | O. axillaris
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Binomial name | |
Olearia axillaris | |
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Olearia axillaris, commonly known as coastal daisy-bush,[2] coast daisy-bush[3] or coastal daisybush[4] is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to coastal areas of Australia. It is an erect, bushy shrub with densely cottony-hairy branchlets, aromatic, linear to narrowly elliptic or narrowly lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base and small white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.