Cineraria saxifraga Dc.

Annual herb, (3-)7-20 cm tall, rarely as tall as 30 cm. Stems herbaceous, unbranched or branching slightly near the base, glabrous or sparsely hairy. Leaves lyrate-pinnatifid to reniform, commonly with two pinnae below lamina; lamina 6-25 x 9-32 mm, glabrous above, sparsely hairy below especially on the veins towards base of lamina, green above, undersurface of fresh leaves often purple; apex obtuse to rounded; margin coarsely dentate to crenate; base truncate to subcordate to cordate; petiole 12-58 mm long, glabrous or slightly cobwebby, with cobwebby hairs in axils; auricles usually small, auriform or widening of base of petiole. Capitula heterogamous, radiate, usually few (4-12) per stem branch, rarely as many as 24; peduncles 4-16 mm long, glabrous, sparsely bracteate. Involucre sparsely calyculate; phyllaries 7 or 8(rarely 12), 3.5-4.0(-5.0) mm long, glabrous, green with pinkish apices; margins scarious. Ray florets 3 or 5, 4-6 mm long; limb 2.5-4.0 mm long, 4-veined. Disc florets 14-24; corolla 2.5-4.5 mm long. Cypselae obovate, compressed, either distinctly to broadly winged (wing c. 0.6 mm wide), dark brown with paler wings, fringed with hairs on wing and also on faces, especially central rib, or margined (not winged), black, fringed with white hairs on margins and outer faces, 2.5-3.0 mm long. Pappus about 3/4 length of disc corolla.