Prostrate to ascending rhizomatous perennial to 30 cm high. Leaves long-petiolate, mostly cauline, broad-ovate, rhombic or triangular, mostly 2–6 cm long, 1.5–5 cm wide, entire, toothed or with a pair of small shallow basal lobes, surfaces grey- to white-tomentose, densely so beneath. Capitula hemispherical, 15–20 mm diam.; involucral bracts broad-lanceolate, 5–12 mm long, 3- or 4-seriate. Ligules 5–12 mm long, yellow; disc florets yellow. Cypselas 3–5 mm long, covered by white wool; pappus of 6–8 minute obtuse scales. Flowers most of year.
GleP, Brid, GipP, WaP, EGL. Also naturalised WA, SA, NSW, Tas. Native to South Africa. Known in Victoria only from far East Gippsland and far south-west Victoria, where it is a species of coastal dunes (with e.g. Spinifex sericeus), accreting mounds of sand as it proliferates.
Source:
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Asteraceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 652–666. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
