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Perennial herb, tufted; flowering stems up to 200 mm high, terminal, solitary, grey-woolly, leafy. Leaves in several basal rosettes; blade of basal leaves linear, up to 120 x 4 mm, apex acute, base broad, clasping, margins slightly involute, upper surface glabrous, lower surface silvery, silky, woolly felted, striate from strongly raised parallel veins; stem leaves much smaller. Heads discoid, campanulate, 8-10 x 18-20 mm, several clustered at stem apex. Involucral bracts in ± 12 series, loosely imbricate, inner subequal, much exceeding florets, dull, tips acute to acuminate, snow-white, radiating, stereome divided. Receptacle epaleate, shortly honeycombed. Flowers: disc florets only, 51-89; corolla narrowly campanulate above, yellow; Sep.-Jan. Fruit with cypsela hairy. Pappus of many barbellate bristles, bases cohering strongly by patent cilia.
Tufted, perennial herb, leaf rosettes several, flowering stems terminal, solitary, up to 200 mm high, grey-woolly, leafy. Leaves: radical leaves up to 120 mm long, linear-lanceolate, base broad, clasping, glabrous above, silvery, silky, woolly felted below, striate from the strongly raised parallel veins; cauline leaves much smaller. Capitula campanulate, 8-10 mm long, several clustered at stem apex; involucral bracts; involucral bracts in ± 12 series, loosely imbricate, snow-white. Flowers 51-89, yellow. Flowering time Sept.-Nov. Pappus of many bristles, barbellate. Cypselae 1.5 mm long, elliptic.
