Arctotis scabra Thunb.

Roughly hairy, sprawling subshrub to 40 cm. Leaves oblanceolate to linear, entire to pinnatifid, sessile, margins revolute, often slightly toothed, discolorous, roughly hairy above, white-felted beneath, often auriculate at base. Flower heads radiate, solitary on leafy peduncles, disc yellow or dark, with yellow rays; bracts with linear tail. Achenes oblong, with 2 elongate cavities; pappus rudimentary and without basal tuft of hairs.