Dwarf shrub, up to 300 mm high; much branched. Leaves alternate, sessile; blade linear-filiform, thin acicular, with strongly dilated (broadened) bases, often with axillary tufts of leaves, margins entire, slightly succulent, glabrous. Heads radiate, solitary; peduncles long, often with stalked glands. Involucral bracts 4-seriate, imbricate. Flowers: ray florets violet; disc florets yellow; Aug.-May. Fruit with cypsela obovate, brownish, shortly hairy. Pappus uniseriate, of many barbellate bristles, equal in length, present in ray and disc cypsela.
Much-branched, dwarf shrub, up to 0.3 m high. Leaves alternate, sessile, acicular with strongly broadened bases, entire, often with axillary tufts of leaves, glabrous, rarely hairy. Capitula radiate, solitary, pedunculate; peduncles often with stalked glands; involucral bracts imbricate, in 4 rows, glabrous or glandular, rarely with some hairs. Ray florets violet. Disc florets yellow. Flowering time all year. Pappus of many barbellate bristles, present in both ray and disc florets. Cypselae obovate, brownish, shortly hairy.
Dwarf shrub, up to 300 mm tall. Leaves acicular with strongly broadened bases, sessile, often with axillary tufts of leaves. Peduncles often with stalked glands. Involucral bracts imbricate, in 4 rows. Achenes shortly hairy. Flowers violet.
Dwarf shrub, up to 300 mm tall. Leaves acicular with strongly broadened bases, sessile, often with axillary tufts of leaves. Peduncles often with stalked glands. Involucral bracts imbricate, in 4 rows. Achenes shortly hairy. Flowers violet.
Scabrid, tufted, fine-leaved perennial to 30 cm. Leaves filiform, scabrid, often in tufts. Flower heads radiate, solitary, yellow with pale mauve rays.