Slender, glabrous shrub to c. 2.4 m high; branchlets slightly angled by decurrent leaf-bases. Leaves alternate, sessile or subsessile, narrow-linear, 8–55 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, with several prominent glandular swellings along the involute margins. Capitula 6–12 mm diam., in terminal corymbs, peduncles usually c. 1 cm long; involucre c. hemispherical, 2–3 mm long; bracts 3–4-seriate, graduating, glabrescent, margin ciliate. Ray florets 15–25, white or pale blue, ligules 4–9 mm long; disc florets 15–25, yellow. Cypsela narrow-obovoid, c. 1–2 mm long, 4–8-ribbed, weakly to densely sericeous; pappus bristles pale, 3–4 mm long. Flowers mostly Oct.–Apr.
GleP, VVP, VRiv, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Also SA, NSW, Tas. Widespread, but seldom common, in cooler parts of the State, mostly south of the Great Dividing Range, typically growing on margins of swamps or creeks.
Source:
Walsh, N.G.; Lander, N.S. (1999). Olearia. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 886–912. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
