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Mueller Daisy-bush
Olearia muelleri
Walsholaria muelleri, commonly known as Mueller daisy bush, Mueller's daisy bush or Goldfields daisy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is a compact or spreading shrub with scattered spatula-shaped to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.
From the article Walsholaria muelleri on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Walsholaria muelleri is a compact or spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.4–1.5 m (1 ft 4 in – 4 ft 11 in) and has sticky branchlets and leaves. The leaves are arranged alternately, scattered along the branchlets, spatula-shaped to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 5–14 mm (0.20–0.55 in) long and 2–8 mm (0.079–0.315 in) wide sometimes with toothed or wavy edges. The heads or daisy-like "flowers" are arranged singly on the ends of branches and are more or less sessile or on a peduncle up to 10 mm (0.39 in) long. There is a bell-shaped involucre at the base with four to eight rows of sticky bracts. Each head has seven to thirteen white ray florets, the ligule 4–15 mm (0.16–0.59 in) long, surrounding twelve to eighteen yellow disc florets. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is a silky-hairy achene, the pappus with forty to fifty bristles.
Range & habitat
Walsholaria muelleri grows in mallee woodlands or spinifex communities and is widespread in the south-west of Western Australia, the south of South Australia, north-western Victoria and the far south-west of New South Wales.
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 787696.