Olearia axillaris

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Olearia axillaris, photographed by Dylan Wishart — fig. b Dylan Wishart, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195232277

Olearia axillaris, photographed by Rod Lowther — fig. d Rod Lowther, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167057725

Olearia axillaris, photographed by Peter Crowcroft — fig. e Peter Crowcroft, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164856883

Olearia axillaris, photographed by Andrew Allen — fig. f Andrew Allen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109615050

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession: K001089771
Filed as: Olearia axillaris (DC.) F.Muell. ex Benth.
Det. by: Lander, N.S.
Collected: Drummond, J.
Origin: AU
The sheet: View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Flowering 61 in flower of 174 examined

36%

57%

59%

56%

62%

13%

56%

Proportion of examined Olearia axillaris in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	6	0%	0% to 39%
Feb	5	14	36%	16% to 61%
Mar	4	7	57%	25% to 84%
Apr	27	46	59%	44% to 72%
May	10	18	56%	34% to 75%
Jun	8	13	62%	36% to 82%
Jul	0	3	too few examined
Aug	0	10	0%	0% to 28%
Sep	1	32	3%	1% to 16%
Oct	0	8	0%	0% to 32%
Nov	1	8	13%	2% to 47%
Dec	5	9	56%	27% to 81%

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Olearia axillaris observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 61 of 174 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,621 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	7.7 °C	9.7 °C	12.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	19.5 °C	22.5 °C	29.1 °C
Annual rainfall	477 mm	710 mm	1,042 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	35 mm	72 mm	162 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,621 research-grade observations of Olearia axillaris that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Named cultivars 8 recorded

Selections of Olearia axillaris that somebody named and propagated. A cultivar is not a botanical taxon: it is governed by the cultivated-plant code rather than the botanical one, so it appears in no taxonomic backbone, and it has no native range and no wild population of its own. These get no page here, because a cultivar has no photographs, no range and no flowering data of its own, and a page with none of those is not a page.

‘Beach Ball’ Q104186665
‘Little Silver’ Q104186666
‘Little Smokie’ Q104186669
‘Mini’ Q104186671
‘olaxlul4’ Q104186673
‘olaxlul6’ Q104186675
‘olaxlul9’ Q104186676
‘PencilGL’ Q104186677

From Wikidata (CC0), joined to this species on its World Flora Online identifier, so the link to the parent is exact rather than a name match. This list is what is recorded in an openly licensed register; it is not every cultivar that exists, and for many genera it is not close. Why, and how far short it falls.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Conyza dampieri A.Cunn. ex DC.
Eurybia axillaris var. exaltata Steetz
Eurybia brachyglossa DC.
Eurybia candidissima Steetz
Eurybia capitellata DC.
Eurybia dampieri DC.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.