Helichrysum lineare Dc.

Perennial herb with a long stout taproot, woody with age, branches up to ±200 mm long, many spreading from the crown, prostrate or rarely decumbent, simple below, corymbosely branched above especially in old plants, thinly white-woolly, closely leafy. Leaves 5-10(-13) x 0.75-1(-4) mm, more or less spreading, linear or lingulate, obtuse, sessile, margins revolute, rarely only weakly so, both surfaces white-woolly, upper often glabrescent, glandular-punctate, viscid. Heads homogamous, cylindric, ±4 x 2 mm, in small glomerules at the branch tips, closely surrounded by leaves. Involucral bracts in ±6 series, outermost short, webbed to the surrounding leaves with wool, persistent, inner subequal, erect, tips subacute to obtuse, often erose, usually opaque white, rarely buff or pinkish, shafts pellucid, colourless or reddish, soon caducous. Receptacle conical, tuberculate. Flowers 8-14, yellow, sometimes tipped pink. Achenes not seen, ovaries with myxogenic duplex hairs or hairs sometimes few or wanting. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, scabrid, bases with patent cilia not cohering. Flowers mainly between August and December, sometimes as early as April to July.