Ozothamnus obcordatus

Ozothamnus obcordatus (DC.) DC. (Asteraceae), the grey everlasting, is a small, much-branched, aromatic perennial shrub endemic to south-eastern Australia, occurring on dry rocky slopes and in open eucalypt forest and woodland in New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania, where it grows 0.5–1.5 m tall. Stems are slender, ascending, and clothed in a dense white cottony tomentum. Leaves are small, alternate, sessile, narrowly obovate to obcordate, 2–8 mm long, dark green and minutely tuberculate above with revolute margins, and densely white-woolly beneath. The inflorescence is a flat-topped to rounded corymb of numerous small heads at the branch tips, each capitulum 3–4 mm across with shining yellow to creamy involucral bracts surrounding a few golden-yellow tubular florets. Achenes are tiny and minutely glandular, crowned with a pappus of barbellate bristles. Flowering occurs in late spring and early summer.