Much-branched, straggling perennial herb, stems branching at ground level, decumbent, rooting, then erect to ±300 mm, simple or subsimple, loosely white-woolly, closely leafy, more distantly so under the heads. Leaves ±10-25 x 3-5 mm, diminishing upwards, oblong-obovate to oblong, apex subacute or obtuse, mucronate, uppermost with a yellow scarious appendage, base narrowed, half-clasping, both surfaces coarsely glandular-pubescent, cobwebby initially, margins thickened, they and the midvein below white-woolly. Heads homogamous, campanulate, ±7 x 6-7 mm, several in a spherical cluster ±20 mm across at the branch tips. Involucral bracts in 5 series, subequal, loosely imbricate, bases webbed together with wool, oblong-elliptic, tips very obtuse, somewhat crisped, about equalling flowers, semiglossy, bright canary-yellow, radiating. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers ±24-35. Achenes 1.5 mm long, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, tips barbellate, yellow, bases cohering by patent cilia.
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Straggling, perennial herb. Stems branching at ground level, decumbent, rooting, then erect, up to 300 mm long, loosely white-woolly, closely leafy. Leaves 10-25 x 3-5 mm, oblong-obovate to oblong, upper leaves tipped with a yellow scarious appendage, base ± clasping, both surfaces coarsely glandular-pubescent, cobwebby at first, margins thickened, margins and midvein below white-woolly. Capitula homogamous, campanulate, 7 x 6-7 mm, several in a terminal, spherical cluster; involucral bracts in 5 series, bases webbed with wool, apex ± crisped, ± glossy, bright yellow. Flowers 24-35. Flowering time Dec., Jan. Cypselae 1.5 mm long, glabrous. Pappus of many bristles, apex barbellate, yellow.
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