Craspedia gracilis

Herb with a single flowering scape 8–65 cm high; roots thick, tomentose. Leaves mainly basal, linear to narrow-spathulate, 5–20 cm long, 5–20 mm wide, narrow-attenuate at the base, acute to broad-acuminate, midrib and 2 secondary veins evident, silvery above with dense, long and appressed hairs, grey-green beneath with sparse appressed hairs, margins with long-woolly hairs. Inflorescence yellow, spherical to hemispherical, 1–2.5 cm wide, with c. 25–100 capitula; scape cream to red, glandular or with multiseptate glandular hairs at base, loosely to densely appressed woolly upwards. Capitula with 6–8 florets; bract subtending capitulum broadly deltoid to ovate, sometimes lobed, margins broad, membranous, dark brown, stereome ovate or triangular, base finely woolly. Cypselas 0.5–2 mm long; pappus 2–4.5 mm long. Flowers summer.