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Inner floret corollas pale-mauve, to c. 7 mm. long, lobes linear erect but recurved at the apex; achenes to c. 3 mm. long, narrowly turbinate, strongly 10-ribbed, uniformly densely appressed-ascending setose-strigose between the ribs, the basal hairs shorter more numerous and ± spreading; pappus 2-seriate, the outer series of 15–20 slender subplumose-ciliolate setae c. 8 mm. long, the inner of c. 5 narrowly scale-like setae c. 8 mm. long, broadly white scarious-winged in the lower half, subplumose-ciliolate above.
Prostrate herb, up to 0.6 m high; root perpendicular, stems many from the crown, decumbent, tomentose. Leaves concolorous, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, tomentose on both sides. Capitula disciform; involucral bracts with outer ones squarrose, acuminate, cobwebbed or glabrous, inner ones lanceolate, erect. Disc florets ± equal to pappus in length. Pappus of disc florets dimorphic; base of inner pappus scale-like for V3 the length, upper part plumose. Cypselae of disc florets furrowed.
A herb. It lies along the ground. It can grow each year from seed or take 2 years to complete its life cycle. It has a taproot and can keep growing for several years. The stem have a white coating. The leaves are simple and narrowly oval. They taper to the base and there are small teeth along the edge. The flowers are in pale red heads. There are some long spiny bracts. The flower heads are 2 cm across. They occur singly in the axils of the upper leaves.
Prostrate or low spreading perennial, with decumbent stems, up to 600 mm long. Leaves narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, subsessile, thinly greyish cobwebby above, paler and woolly. Below, margins finely undulate. Flowerheads disciform, solitary, subsessile, terminal on branches; involucral bracts lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, pointing outwards in upper half, pungent; florets pale mauve; pappus of outer bristles and inner broad white scales.
Leaves subsessile or with the midrib petiole-like in the lower c. 10 mm., mostly 10–40 x 3–10 mm., ± narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblanceolate, obtuse mucronate at the apex, narrowly cuneate or attenuate below; margins finely undulate, minutely callose-serrulate; midrib sometimes ± recurved and the lamina conduplicate; upper surface thinly greyish araneose, paler lanate beneath.
Phyllaries numerous, stiffly chartaceous, usually ± squarrose in upper half, finely araneose-lanate where exposed, or glabrescent, finely serrulate-ciliate; the outer phyllaries from c. 34 mm. long, finely subulate, the inner to c. 20 mm. long and linear-lanceolate tapering to an acute or acuminate pungent apex.
Annual or biennial herb, up to 300 mm tall. Leaves ± conduplicate, often linear-elliptic, margins undulate. Heads heterogamous, disciform. Sterile ray flowers present; rudimentary ovary bearing numerous ciliate filamentous pappus hairs. Pappus ciliate. Flowers with whitish ray flowers, disc flowers pale violet.
Outer florets neuter; corollas rudimentary, 4–5 mm. long, filiform; ovary rudimentary, finely setulose from the base; pappus several-seriate of numerous barbellate setae to (7)9–11 mm. long, shorter than the involucre.
Stems annual, many from the root crown, sometimes woody at the base, decumbent to c. 30 cm. long, branched, leafy, appressed greyish-lanate.
Capitula few to many, solitary and terminal on branches or short shoots, subsessile axillary, subtended by several leaves.
Involucres mostly 12–20 x 6–10 mm., spreading to c. 25 mm. across the squarrose phyllaries, campanulate.
A prostrate or low spreading perennial herb from a woody taproot.
