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Perennial herb; flowering stems up to 400 mm high, terminal; mat-forming, procumbent and erect, leafy. Leaves: blade of basal leaves linear, 10-40(-70) x 2-3(-5) mm, apex acute, apiculate, base broad, clasping, margins weakly revolute, both surfaces silvery white-felted, with 3-5 side veins; blade of stem leaves similar, but shorter and closely imbricate. Heads disciform, campanulate, 12-15 x ± 25 mm, mostly solitary, occasionally 2 or 3 corymbosely arranged. Involucral bracts in ± 8 series, graded, loosely imbricate, inner much exceeding florets, glossy white, very pale to dark chestnut-brown or reddish brown outside in upper half, radiating, stereome divided. Receptacle epaleate, shortly honeycombed. Flowers: female and disc florets 153-443, 15-28 female; corolla of disc florets funnel-shaped, yellow; Feb., Mar. Fruit with cypsela (and ovary) glabrous. Pappus of many barbellate bristles, bases not cohering.
Mat-forming, perennial herb with rooting branches from a stout woody stock, many-crowded leaf rosettes, flowering stems terminal, up to 400 mm high, leafy. Leaves: radical leaves up to 70 mm long, linear-lanceolate, base broad, clasping, margins ± revolute, both sides silvery white-felted, lower paler than upper, prominently 3-5-nerved; cauline leaves similar, often shorter, closely imbricate. Capitula campanulate, 12-15 mm long, ± 25 mm in diam., mostly solitary; involucral bracts in ± 8 series, graded, glossy white, upper half very pale to dark or red-brown outside. Flowers 153-443. Flowering time Dec.-July, mainly Feb., Mar. Pappus of many bristles. Cypselae 1.5 mm long.
Prostrate and erect perennial herb, 50-400 mm tall. Radical leaves 10-40(-70) x 2-3(-5) mm, linear-lanceolate, both surfaces silvery white-felted; cauline leaves similar but shorter and closely imbricate. Heads campanulate, 12-15 mm long, mostly solitary. Flowers with involucral bracts glossy white, very pale to dark chestnut-brown or reddish brown outside in upper half.
