Cotula montana Compton

Herbaceous, perennial, stoloniferous. Leaves softly membranous, basal, spreading, crowded on a very short stem, very varied in size, up to 5 cm long x 2 cm wide, petiole as long as or longer than lamina, pilose throughout with long soft spreading hairs, lamina 1-2-pinnatisect, ultimate lobes oblong, subacute, midrib and marginal veins distinct. Stolons slender, spreading, bearing a few short pinnatisect leaves which soon fall off, rooting and producing new plants at their tips. Peduncles only 1 or 2 per plant, slender, terete, leafless, pilose throughout, up to 12 cm long, usually less, without terminal enlargement. Capitulum solitary, widely expanded. Involucral bracts subbiseriate, few, lanceolate, subobtuse, green, herbaceous, pilose, with a distinct midrib and a dark lobulate scarious margin and apex, the largest 5 mm long x 2 mm wide. Ray florets 5, ligulate, female, shortly pedicellate, the corolla spreading, broadly obovate, very obtuse, slightly lobed, veined, white on both surfaces, c. 9 mm long x 5 mm wide. Disc florets numerous, hermaphrodite, tubular, the. tube slightly flattened with a few glands near the base, lobes 4, erect, yellow. Achenes flat, margined, glabrous, without pappus.