Berkheya rigida

Rigid perennial herb or subshrub to c. 60 cm high, rhizomatous; stems white-tomentose to glabrescent. Leaves alternate, sessile, lanceolate to ovate in outline, 4–9 cm long, 2–4 cm wide, pinnatisect, apex and lobes spine-tipped, base amplexicaul, upper surface blue-green and glabrescent, lower surface white-tomentose, margins revolute. Capitula 5–10 mm diam., several in terminal and axillary corymb-like clusters; involucre burr-like; involucral bracts in 3 or 4 unequal series, lanceolate, to c. 12 mm long, spreading, concave, margins spiny; receptacle-scales deeply lacerate. Ray florets absent; disc florets exceeding the involucre, yellow. Cypselas 2.5–3 mm long, glabrous, persistent; pappus scales minute, connate into a crown. Flowers most of the year (mainly spring and summer).