Craspedia canens

Herb with 1(–5) flowering scapes 15–65 cm high; roots thick, tomentose. Leaves mainly basal, narrowly ovate, acute to broadly acuminate, attenuate at base; 6–25 cm long, 5–15 mm wide, midrib and sometimes 2 lateral veins evident, indumentum of long white hairs, sometimes also with minute glandular hairs, dense on both surfaces or sometimes on upper surface confined to main veins and margins. Inflorescence yellow, globose to hemispherical, 1.3–2.5 cm diam., with c. 100 capitula; scape green to purplish, minutely glandular and often woolly with long fine hairs. Capitula with 5–9 florets; bract subtending capitulum ovate, entire, margins broad, membranous, brown, often laciniate near base, stereome narrowly ovate to deltoid, base densely woolly. Cypselas 1–1.5 mm long; pappus 2.5–4 mm long. Flowers spring.