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Perennial herb, 100-400 mm high. Leaves alternate; blade linear to narrowly obovate or oblong, 150 x 20 mm, decreasing in size upwards, apex acute to obtuse, base petiolelike narrowed, clasping, margins remotely denticulate, sinuate-dentate or entire; glandular-pubescent, glabrescent. Heads radiate, terminal, solitary, pedunculate. Involucral bracts ± biseriate, glandular pubescent. Flowers: ray florets female, fertile, upper surface white, lower surface purple to mauve or coppery; disc florets functionally male, yellow or whitish; Oct.-Jan., Apr. Fruit developing from ray florets, with cypsela obovoid, 3-6-angular, glabrous. Pappus absent.
Tufted, glandular-hispid, perennial herb, up to 0.3 m high, stiffly hairy; stems several from a woody stock, often contracted. Leaves: cauline ones shorter and narrower than basal ones, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, narrowed to a petiole-like, clasping base, apex acute or subacute, mucronate; basal leaves up to 150 x 20 mm, margins entire, or with few, hard teeth, wavy, narrowed to stalk-like base, repand or remotely callose-denticu-late. Capitula terminal, solitary, ± 40 mm in diam. Ray florets creamy white above, bluish mauve beneath. Disc florets whitish. Flowering time Sept.-Mar. Cypselae ± 6 mm long, obovoid, 3-angled.
Perennial herb, 100-400 mm tall. Leaves alternate, linear-lanceolate to oblanceolate, spathulate or oblong; margins remotely denticulate or sinuate-dentate; glandular-pubescent, glabrescent. Achenes 3-6-angular. Flowers with rays white above, purple to mauve or coppery underneath, disc yellow.
