Chrysocephalum apiculatum subsp. apiculatum

Prostrate to erect or sprawling perennial to 40 cm high. Stems slender, cobwebbed. Leaves narrowly oblong to oblanceolate or obovate, rarely linear, to 10 cm long near base of plant, smaller above, flat, sometimes recurved, appressed to loosely cobwebbed. Capitula in compact to loose corymbose clusters. Involucre hemispherical to cup-shaped, c. 8 mm long; outer bracts yellow, sometimes tinged reddish-brown, somewhat woolly; intermediate bracts c. 5.5 mm long, ciliate, apex usually glabrous. Female florets with 0–6(–9) pappus bristles; bristles sparsely plumose at apex, scabrous below.