Gnaphalium gnaphalodes (Dc.) Hilliard & B.L.Burtt

Stoloniferous perennial herb, stems mostly 100-300 mm long, simple or branching, prostrate or decumbent, thinly greyish cottony-tomentose, leafy. Leaves ascending, appressed, mostly c. 8-20 x 2.5-4(-5) mm, oblong-spathulate or rarely narrowly oblong-elliptic, apex usually obtuse, conspicuously mucronate, often folded lengthwise and somewhat recurved, margins more or less undulate, both surfaces loosely greyish-white appressed tomentose, often somewhat glabrescent. Heads c. 3-3.5 x 3 mm, in small corymbose clusters at or near the branch tips, eventually carried clear of the leaves on cottony peduncles. Involucral bracts in c. 4 series, outer short, golden-brown, glabrous or nearly so, inner with opaque, snow-white, oblong, obtuse tips exceeding the flowers. Receptacle shallowly tuberculate. Flowers 112-188, 90-159 ('female'), 20-50 ('bisexual'), in the proportion 2.5-7:1. Achenes c. 0.5 mm long with duplex myxogenic hairs. Pappus bristles either wanting in ('female') flowers or scabrid, bristles on ('bisexual') flowers shortly plumose at tips.