Grindelia squarrosa

Erect glabrous biennial or perennial herb or subshrub to 1 m high; stems whitish, straw-coloured, reddish or greyish. Leaves cauline, elliptic, ovate, obovate, or oblong to spathulate, oblanceolate, lanceolate, or linear, (10–)15–70 mm long, 4–20 mm wide, gland-dotted, resinous; margins crenate to serrate, rarely entire; base amplexicaul; apex obtuse to acute. Capitula usually radiate, in corymbs or rarely solitary; involucre broadly urceolate to hemispherical or globose, 6–11 mm long; involucral bracts 5–6 seriate, reflexed to spreading or appressed, filiform or linear to lanceolate-linear, resinous, usually looped or hooked at apex; ray florets absent or (12–)24–36(–40), ligules 8–14 mm long, yellow; disc florets numerous, yellow. Cypselas oblong, 1.5–4.5 mm long, whitish, grey, straw-coloured or brown; pappus of 2–3(–8) straight to curled, smooth to barbellate, subulate scales or awns, 2.5–5.5 mm long. Recorded flowering in February in Victoria.