Prostrate annual herb, stems 10-20 mm long, many radiating from the crown, simple or branched, thinly appressed woolly-cobwebby, glabrescent, sparsely leafy. Leaves 7-12 x 3-5 mm, broadly spathulate, very obtuse, mucronate, enveloped in loosely woven white wool. Heads homogamous, globose-campanulate c. 4 x 2 mm, several in terminal glomerules surrounded by leaves webbed together with wool, the heads buried in masses of white wool. Involucral bracts in 3 series, outermost short, inner subequal, equalling flowers, linear-lanceolate, backs woolly, webbed to subtending leaves, tips glabrous, very acute, sometimes lacerate, straw-coloured, radiating. Receptacle honeycombed. Flowers c. 11-20. Achenes 1 mm long, with minute globose duplex hairs. Pappus bristles c. 5, equalling corolla, tips with several much inflated cells, nude below.
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Prostrate, white-woolly annual, with radiating, sparsely leafy stems up to 200 mm long. Leaves obovate-spathulate, 7-12 mm long, white-woolly. Flowerheads in terminal glomerules surrounded by a whorl of leaves, embedded in dense wool, discoid, 2 mm diam., yellow; pappus bristles tipped with swollen, balloon-like cells.
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