Craspedia aurantia

Herb with a single flowering scape 15–60 cm high; roots thick, tomentose. Leaves mainly basal, spathulate, 2–16 cm long, 2–25 mm wide, acute to broad-acuminate, attenuate at the base, with one main vein and a few obscure lateral veins, sparsely covered with multiseptate hairs or glabrous. Inflorescence yellow to orange-brown, spherical to hemispherical, 1.5–3 cm wide, with c. 40–90 capitula; scape straw- to red-brown, variously glandular to sparsely silky hairy. Capitula with 5–10 florets; bract subtending capitulum broadly triangular to ovate, margins and lobes membranous, stereome usually ovate, base hairy. Cypselas 0.5–1.5 mm long, 0.1–0.8 mm wide; pappus 2–5 mm long. Flowers summer.