Euchiton limosus

Tufted or stoloniferous perennial to c. 50 cm high. Stems often rather weak and branched. Leaves usually all cauline at flowering, usually narrow-oblong, oblanceolate or narrow-elliptic, rarely linear, 1.5–5(–8) cm long, (1–)2–10 mm wide, upper surface green, glabrous, lower surface white with appressed cottony hairs. Stem leaves c. 6–20, shortly auriculate. Inflorescence terminal, often smaller axillary clusters below, 5–15 mm diam., subtended by c. 3–8 leaves, the longest 1.5–5 cm long. Capitula 6–8, narrowly ovoid to cylindric at anthhesis; inner bracts elliptic, 3.2–4 mm long, obtuse to retuse, sometimes with a reddish-purple band below the straw-coloured at tip; bisexual florets 3(–4). Cypselas 0.6–0.8 mm long, glabrous (rarely sparsely and minutely puberulous). Flowers mostly Jan.–Apr.