Craspedia basaltica

Rosetted perennial with 1–several flowering scapes to 30 cm high; roots thick, spreading, woolly. Leaves mostly in a basal tuft, erect, oblanceolate to spathulate (cauline leaves almost linear), blades to 60 mm long, 5–10 mm wide, base attenuate, surfaces hoary with many multicellular hairs; petioles narrow, reddish, to 10 cm long. Inflorescence pale yellow, c. spherical, 15–22 mm diam, with 20–40 capitula on peduncles c. 2 mm long; scape straw-coloured to reddish, with some multiseptate hairs at the base but mainly with loose, fine woolly hairs upwards. Capitula with 5–8 florets; bract subtending capitulum broadly ovate, margins membranous, wide, colourless to brown, stereome small, triangular, typically less than half the length and width of the entire bract, finely woolly at base. Cypselas c. 2 mm long, 0.6–1 mm wide; pappus 3–6 mm long. Flowers late winter and spring.