Olearia moschata

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Olearia moschata, photographed by John Barkla — fig. b John Barkla, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177786211

Olearia moschata, photographed by Christopher Stephens — fig. d Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 176356445

Olearia moschata, photographed by Leon Perrie — fig. g Leon Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113357133

Olearia moschata, photographed by Kane Fleury — fig. h Kane Fleury, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112424892

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Flowering 31 in flower of 43 examined

78%

86%

83%

Proportion of examined Olearia moschata in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	14	18	78%	55% to 91%
Feb	12	14	86%	60% to 96%
Mar	5	6	83%	44% to 97%
Apr	0	3	too few examined
May	0	1	too few examined
Jun	0	0	too few examined
Jul	0	0	too few examined
Aug	0	0	too few examined
Sep	0	1	too few examined
Oct	0	0	too few examined
Nov	0	0	too few examined
Dec	0	0	too few examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Olearia moschata 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. 31 of 43 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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 213 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	-7.0 °C	-4.3 °C	-0.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	12.0 °C	14.2 °C	17.2 °C
Annual rainfall	2,214 mm	4,198 mm	6,395 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	486 mm	929 mm	1,332 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 213 research-grade observations of Olearia moschata 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.

Also published as 1 synonym

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.

Aster moschatus (Hook.f.) F.Muell.

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.