Arctotis stoechadifolia

Prostrate to ascending grey-tomentose perennial herb to 80 cm high, becoming woody at base. Leaves sessile, cauline, oblanceolate to lyrate-pinnatisect, mostly 4–10 cm long and 5–30 mm wide, margins irregularly toothed, surfaces both grey-tomentose, more densely so beneath. Capitula terminal, hemispherical, 15–25 mm diam.; involucral bracts ovate to broad-lanceolate, 2–20 mm long, c. 5-seriate. Ligules oblong, 25–30 mm long, obscurely 3-lobed, white, cream, orange above, usually with darker contrasting band just above base, mauve below, or wholly mauve-purple (see note below). Disc florets purplish-black. Cypselas 3–4 mm long, densely sericeous, 5-ribbed, 2 ribs longer and incurved; pappus scales 7 or 8, 3–4 mm long, pinkish. Flowers spring and summer.